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Tim Wood

Propaganda

Propaganda, obviously: How propaganda analysis fixates on the hidden and misses the conspicuous

Tim Wood

Propaganda analysis has long focused on revealing the rhetorical tricks and hidden special interests behind persuasion campaigns. But what are critics to do when propaganda is obvious? In the late 1930s the Institute for Propaganda Analysis faced this question while investigating the public politicking of A&P, then the largest retailer in the United States.

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