Promoting the war effort Robert Horton and federal propaganda, 1938-1946

Title:

Author:

Lee, Mordecai, 1948-

ISBN:

9780807145302

9780807145319

Publication Information:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2012. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Series:

Media and public affairs

Series Title:

Media and public affairs

Contents:

Introduction: Government Public Relations : What's OK and What's Not? -- Part I. Government PR in Peacetime -- Government PR for Widely Held Values : Horton at the Maritime Commission, 1938-1940 -- Government PR When the President Is Running for Reelection : Horton at the National Defense Advisory Commission, June-November 1940 -- Part II. Government PR in the Twilight between Peace and War -- Horton at the Office of Production Management, November 1940-February 1941 -- An Overview of Horton's Autonomous Division of Information, March-December 1941 -- The Division of Information's Programs and Management, March-December 1941 -- Part III. Government PR in Wartime -- An Overview of Horton's Autonomous Division of Information, December 1941-June 1942 -- The Division of Information's Programs and Management, December 1941-June 1942 -- Horton and Government PR after the Division of Information, June 1942-June 1946 -- Conclusion: Robert Horton and the Practice of Government PR.

Personal Subject:

Horton, Robert (Robert Wyman), b. 1902.

Corporate Subject:

United States. Office for Emergency Management. Division of Information -- Officials and employees -- Biography.

Subject Term:

Politics and war -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Public relations and politics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Propaganda, American -- History -- 20th century.

World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Propaganda.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.