Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and LibertyAlex Carey documents the twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda as practiced by U.S. businesse, and its export to and adoption by Western democracies like the United Kingdom and Australia. The collection, drawn from Carey's voluminous unpublished writings, examines how and why the business elite successfully sold its values and perspectives to the rest of society. A volume in the series The History of Communication, edited by Robert W. McChesney and John C. Nerone |
Contents
Introduction by Andrew Lohrey | 1 |
Closing the American Mind | 9 |
The Early Years | 18 |
The First Americanization Movement | 37 |
The McCarthy Crusade | 64 |
Reshaping the Truth | 75 |
Exporting Freeenterprise Persuasion | 85 |
Exporting Persuasion | 109 |
The Orwell Diversion | 133 |
Propaganda in the Social Sciences | 141 |
The Industrial Preachers | 153 |
A Criticism | 173 |
Notes | 193 |
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