Reporting the Revolutionary War: Before It Was History, It Was News

Reporting the Revolutionary War: Before It Was History, It Was News
Todd Andrlik (Author)
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Propaganda & Political Psychology

"This is 'you are there' history at its best...[Reporting the Revolutionary War] lets us see and feel how events unfolded for the people who lived them."—American History

For the colonists of the new world, the years of the American Revolution were a time of upheaval and rebellion. History boils it down to a few key events and has embodied it with a handful of legendary personalities. But the reality of the time was that everyday people witnessed thousands of little moments blaze into an epic conflict-for more than twenty years. Now, for the first time, experience the sparks of revolution the way the colonists did—in their very own town newspapers and broadsheets. Reporting the Revolutionary War is a stunning collection of primary sources, sprinkled with modern analysis from 37 historians. Featuring Patriot and Loyalist eyewitness accounts from newspapers printed on both sides of the Atlantic, readers will experience the revolution as it happened with the same immediacy and uncertainty of the colonists.

The American newspapers of the eighteenth century fanned the flames of rebellion, igniting the ideas of patriotism and liberty among average citizens who had never before been so strongly united. Within the papers, you'll also read the private correspondence and battlefield letters of the rebels and patriots who grabbed the attention of each and every colonist and pushed them to fight for freedom and change. From one of America's leading Revolutionary War newspaper archivists, Todd Andrlik, and guided by scores of historians and experts, Reporting the Revolutionary War brings you into the homes of Americans and lets you see through their eyes the tinderbox of war as it explodes.

"The story of the battle for independence unlike any version that has been told." —Military Review

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• Published on: 2012-11-01
• Released on: 2012-11-01
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 10.43" h x 9.96" w x 1.30" l, 4.20 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 400 pages

The Longest Romance: The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro

The Longest Romance: The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro
Humberto Fontova (Author)
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Fidel Castro jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin during the Great Terror. He murdered more Cubans in his first three years in power than Hitler murdered Germans during his first six. Alone among world leaders, Castro came to within inches of igniting a global nuclear holocaust.

But you would never guess any of that from reading the mainstream American media. Instead we hear fawning accounts of Castro liberating Cuba from the clutches of U.S. robber-barons and bestowing world-class healthcare and education on his downtrodden citizens. APropaganda is vitalAthe heart of our struggle,” Castro wrote in 1955. Today, the concept is as valid to the Cuban regime as ever.

History records few propaganda campaigns as phenomenally successful or enduring as Castro and Che’s. The Longest Romance exposes the full scope of this deception; it documents the complicity of major U.S. media players in spreading Castro’s propaganda and in coloring the world’s view of his totalitarian regime. Castro’s cachet as a celebrity icon of anti-Americanism has always overshadowed his record as a warmonger, racist, sexist, Stalinist, and godfather of modern terrorism. The Longest Romance uncovers this shameful history and names its major accomplices.

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• Published on: 2013-08-13
• Released on: 2013-08-13
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Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation

Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation
Eric Deggans (Author)
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Gone is the era of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, when news programs fought to gain the trust and respect of a wide spectrum of American viewers. Today, the fastest-growing news programs and media platforms are fighting hard for increasingly narrow segments of the public and playing on old prejudices and deep-rooted fears, coloring the conversation in the blogosphere and the cable news chatter to distract from the true issues at stake. Using the same tactics once used to mobilize political parties and committed voters, they send their fans coded messages and demonize opposing groups, in the process securing valuable audience share and website traffic. Race-baiter is a term born out of this tumultuous climate, coined by the conservative media to describe a person who uses racial tensions to arouse the passion and ire of a particular demographic. Even as the election of the first black president forces us all to reevaluate how we think about race, gender, culture, and class lines, some areas of modern media are working hard to push the same old buttons of conflict and division for new purposes. In Race-Baiter, veteran journalist and media critic Eric Deggans dissects the powerful ways modern media feeds fears, prejudices, and hate, while also tracing the history of the word and its consequences, intended or otherwise.

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• Published on: 2012-10-30
• Released on: 2012-10-30
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 9.49" h x 6.26" w x .98" l, 1.03 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

New Lies For Old

New Lies For Old
Anatole Golitsyn (Author)

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The Communist strategy of deception and disinformation.A Russian deserter explain the disinformation methods of KJB.

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• Published on: 2013-08-23
• Released on: 2013-08-23
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Myth, Memory, Trauma (Eurasia Past and Present)

Myth, Memory, Trauma (Eurasia Past and Present)
Polly Jones (Author)

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Propaganda & Political Psychology

Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, Polly Jones offers an innovative, comprehensive account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. Jones traces the authorities’ initiation and management of the de-Stalinization process and explores a wide range of popular reactions to the new narratives of Stalinism in party statements and in Soviet literature and historiography.

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• Published on: 2013-08-27
• Released on: 2013-08-05
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None Dare Call it Conspiracy

None Dare Call it Conspiracy
Gary Allen (Author), Larry Abraham (Author)
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The story you are about to read is true. The names have not been changed to protect the guilty. This book may have the effect of changing your life. After reading this book you will never look at national and world events in the same way again. None Dare Call It Conspiracy will be a very controversial book. At first it will receive little publicity and those whose plans are exposed in it will try to kill it by the silent treatment. For reasons that become obvious as you read this book, it will not be reviewed in all the "proper" places or be available on your local bookstore. However, there is nothing these people can do to stop a grass roots book distributing system. Eventually it will be necessary for the people and organizations named in this book to try to blunt its effect by attacking it or the author. They have a tremendous vested interest in keeping you from discovering what they are doing. And they have the big guns of the mass media at their disposal to fire the barrages at None Dare Call It Conspiracy.

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• Published on: 2013-08-21
• Released on: 2013-08-21
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The Authoritarian Specter

The Authoritarian Specter
Robert Altemeyer (Author)
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The bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, the emergence of militias and skinheads, the rise of the religious right, the attacks on Planned Parenthood clinics, the backlash against equal rights movements, the increase in poverty...these, according to Bob Altemeyer, are all versions of one story--the authoritarian personality in action. But aren't authoritarians Nazi types, kooks, the Klan? These are just the extreme examples, he argues. The Authoritarian Specter shows that many ordinary people today are psychologically disposed to embrace antidemocratic, fascist policies.

The book presents the latest results from a prize-winning research program on the authoritarian personality--a victory for the scientific method in the struggle to understand the worst aspects of ourselves. It connects for the first time the many ways authoritarianism undermines democracy. Many of our biggest problems, seemingly unrelated, have authoritarian roots. The scientific studies demonstrating this are extensive and thorough; their powerful findings are presented in a conversational, clear manner that engages readers from all backgrounds.

This is an important, timely work. It explains a growing movement to submit to a "man on horseback," to attack those who are different, to march in lockstep. Altemeyer reveals that these sentiments are strongly held even by many American lawmakers. These discoveries deserve careful attention in a presidential election year.

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• Published on: 1996-11-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 374 pages

Indoctrination as the tool of choice for making up and steering thinking in vast populations (article)

Indoctrination as the tool of choice for making up and steering thinking in vast populations (article)
Jorge Medrano (Author)

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This s an essay on social Psychology and Politics. I expect to convey the awareness that many in the general population of the world have their thinking implanted on their minds by tools of mind control. The use of indoctrination as a tool to control and orient large segments of population is discussed, along with its obvious advantages. For example, it does not require the frequent covert (or overt) use of torture to create docile individuals. Its dangers for the population however are enormous. Although indoctrination has been used before in history, it is being used more frequently in the modern world for political purposes, and can it lead to the kind of society that those with the resources to use this tool want to create. Nowadays the know-how regarding its use has advanced together with the advance in the ways to reach people's consciousness, and the unconsciousness as well. It is surprising though that comparatively little has been discussed anywhere regarding the tool itself and the types of society it can be used to mold. In this paper I posit that the modern tools for indoctrination, the known world-wide espionage on regular citizens and the possibility for intimidation, will together suffice to lead and mold a society in any desired direction. I will concentrate however, on indoctrination, because I consider it to be the most insidious, dangerous and at the same time the least amenable to proof based on modern sociological or statistical studies. The shaping of a society or orienting the direction for a society to take is, to my knowledge, a new phenomenon, aided presently by a refinement of both the tools and the know-how to use them.

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• Published on: 2013-08-09
• Released on: 2013-08-09
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Public Diplomacy: A Case Study of China's Public Diplomacy towards Pakistan

Public Diplomacy: A Case Study of China's Public Diplomacy towards Pakistan
Zarnish Javed (Author)

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Propaganda & Political Psychology

This study explores how China is using public diplomacy initiatives to influence Pakistan, as it is geographically and strategically important country for China, and what are the developments in result. This research tries to find reasons, though the two countries have different ideologies, culture and language but still share very strong relations.

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• Published on: 2013-07-17
• Released on: 2013-07-17
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The Mind of the Terrorist: The Psychology of Terrorism from the IRA to al-Qaeda

The Mind of the Terrorist: The Psychology of Terrorism from the IRA to al-Qaeda
Jerrold M. Post (Author)
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Propaganda & Political Psychology

In contrast to the widely held assumption that terrorists are crazed fanatics, Jerrold Post demonstrates they are psychologically “normal” and that “hatred has been bred in the bone”. He reveals the powerful motivations that drive these ordinary people to such extraordinary evil by exploring the different types of terrorists, from national-separatists such as the Irish Republican Army to social revolutionary terrorists such as the Shining Path, as well as religious extremists like al-Qaeda and Aum Shinrikyo. In The Mind of the Terrorist, Post uses his expertise to explain how the terrorist mind works and how this information can help us to combat terrorism more effectively.

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• Published on: 2008-12-15
• Released on: 2008-12-23
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

The Hidden Persuaders

The Hidden Persuaders
Vance Packard (Author), Mark Crispin Miller (Introduction)
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"One of the best books around for demystifying the deliberately mysterious arts of advertising."--Salon

"Fascinating, entertaining and thought-stimulating."--The New York Times Book Review

"A brisk, authoritative and frightening report on how manufacturers, fundraisers and politicians are attempting to turn the American mind into a kind of catatonic dough that will buy, give or vote at their command--The New Yorker

Originally published in 1957 and now back in print to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, The Hidden Persuaders is Vance Packard’s pioneering and prescient work revealing how advertisers use psychological methods to tap into our unconscious desires in order to "persuade" us to buy the products they are selling.

A classic examination of how our thoughts and feelings are manipulated by business, media and politicians, The Hidden Persuaders was the first book to expose the hidden world of “motivation research,” the psychological technique that advertisers use to probe our minds in order to control our actions as consumers. Through analysis of products, political campaigns and television programs of the 1950s, Packard shows how the insidious manipulation practices that have come to dominate today’s corporate-driven world began. Featuring an introduction by Mark Crispin Miller, The Hidden Persuaders has sold over one million copies, and forever changed the way we look at the world of advertising.

Vance Packard (1914-1996) was an American journalist, social critic, and best-selling author. Among his other books were The Status Seekers, which described American social stratification and behavior, The Waste Makers, which criticizes planned obsolescence, and The Naked Society, about the threats to privacy posed by new technologies.

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• Published on: 2007-07-01
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Crystallizing Public Opinion

Crystallizing Public Opinion
Edward Bernays (Author), Stuart Ewen (Introduction)
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A seminal work on how public opinion is created and shaped, Edward Bernays’s 1923 classic Crystallizing Public Opinion set down the principles that corporations and government have used to influence public attitudes over the past century.

A primer on the then new profession of "public relations counsel," Crystallizing elucidates the "instruments and techniques" that PR professionals use to mold public opinion on behalf of their client's interests. By adapting the ideas that Bernays put forth in this book, governments and advertisers have been able to "regiment the mind like the military regiments the body."

The first ever book ever written about the public relations industry, this all-new edition of Crystallizing Public Opinion features an introduction by Stuart Ewen, author of PR! A Social History of Spin, All Consuming Images: On the Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture, and Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture.

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• Published on: 2011-08-16
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 216 pages

Propaganda

Propaganda
Edward Bernays (Author), Mark Crispin Miller (Introduction)
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“Bernays’ honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies.”—Noam Chomsky

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”—Edward Bernays, Propaganda

A seminal and controversial figure in the history of political thought and public relations, Edward Bernays (1891–1995), pioneered the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public opinion, which he famously dubbed “engineering of consent.” During World War I, he was an integral part of the U.S. Committee on Public Information (CPI), a powerful propaganda apparatus that was mobilized to package, advertise and sell the war to the American people as one that would “Make the World Safe for Democracy.” The CPI would become the blueprint in which marketing strategies for future wars would be based upon.

Bernays applied the techniques he had learned in the CPI and, incorporating some of the ideas of Walter Lipmann, became an outspoken proponent of propaganda as a tool for democratic and corporate manipulation of the population. His 1928 bombshell Propaganda lays out his eerily prescient vision for using propaganda to regiment the collective mind in a variety of areas, including government, politics, art, science and education. To read this book today is to frightfully comprehend what our contemporary institutions of government and business have become in regards to organized manipulation of the masses.

This is the first reprint of Propaganda in over 30 years and features an introduction by Mark Crispin Miller, author of The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder.

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• Published on: 2004-09-01
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 7.72" h x 5.00" w x .36" l, .37 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 175 pages

Political Paranoia: The Psychopolitics of Hatred

Political Paranoia: The Psychopolitics of Hatred
Robert S. Robins (Author), Dr. Jerrold Post M.D. (Author)
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Paranoia is not an obscure mental state afflicting some individuals but a widespread condition of modern societies, say the authors of this book. Robert S. Robins and Jerrold M. Post, M.D., document and interpret the malign power of paranoia in a variety of contexts - in political movements like McCarthyism, in organizations like the John Birch Society, in leaders like Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Jim Jones, and David Koresh, and among extreme groups that commit violence in the name of Christianity, islam, and Judaism. Indeed, Robins and Post show that paranoid dynamic has been aggressively present in every social disaster of this century. Robins and Post describe the paranoid personality, explain why paranoia is part of human evolutionary history, and examine the conditions that must exist before the message of the paranoid takes root in a vulnerable population, leading to mass movements and genocidal violence. Their wide-ranging discussion sheds lights on many troubling episodes in our history: why more than 900 people committed suicide in Guyana in 1978 with their leader, Jim Jones; how the terrorists who bombed New York's World Trade Centre in New York in 1993 justified their violence in the name of God; how the need for enemies in the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire led to a rise in anti-Semitism in some eastern European countries even though the Jewish population had been nearly decimated; how paranoia manifests itself among black and white racists; and why the conspiracy theory elaborated in Oliver stone's film JFK strikes such a chord in the viewing public.

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• Published on: 1997-09-23
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 9.21" h x 1.18" w x 6.14" l, 1.70 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 408 pages

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