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Propaganda 1776 : secrets, leaks, and revolutionary communications in early America
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Castronovo, Russ, Author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in American literary history.
- Oxford studies in American literary history Propaganda 1776
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Propaganda--History--18th century--United States.
- Propaganda.
- War and literature--History--18th century--United States.
- War and literature.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Propaganda.
- United States.
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Franklin, Benjamin.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Russ Castronovo looks at famous patriots like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Paine; the playwright Mary Otis Warren; and the poet Philip Freneau; providing various anecdotes that demonstrate the ways propaganda was - contrary to our instinctual understanding - fundamental to democracy rather than antithetical to it.
- Contents:
- Introduction: printscapes and propaganda
- State secrets: Ben Franklin and Wikileaks
- Memes, plagiarism, and revolutionary drama
- From East India to the Boston Tea Party: propaganda at the extremes
- Epistolary propaganda: counterfeits, stolen letters, and transatlantic revolutions
- Aftermath: the poetry of the post-revolution.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 22, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-935492-8
- 0-19-935493-6
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