This collection of readings in propaganda and persuasion is designed to serve as either a companion to Jowett and O'Donnell's text Propaganda and Persuasion or as a single class resource. The contents range from seminal essays by Jacques Ellul, Kenneth Burke, and Paul M.A. Linebarger to articles by well-known writers on propaganda such as Philip Taylor and David Culbert to new essays about responses to 9/11, the treatment of Afghan women, persuasion in the built environment, and public diplomacy as propaganda. Also included are analyses of the relationship between rhetoric and propaganda, essays about the definition of propaganda, propaganda in the Boston Massacre of the American Revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution, and American, British, and German propaganda during World War II, and brainwashing in the Korean War.

Key Features:

* Includes a series of short but informative historical articles that lends perspectives on propaganda at the time of the American Revolution, World Wars I and II, Communist Soviet Union, the Vietnam war, and brainwashing in the Korean War
* Features readings on propaganda in movies, global television, and third wave propaganda
* Provides an examination of the United States Information Agency
* Includes an analysis by Nancy Snow of "official" United States government propaganda
* Features readings on public relations as propaganda, the rhetoric of the Third Reich, and contemporary propaganda