Oxford University Press, 1996
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"British propaganda brought America to the brink of war, and left it to
the Japanese and Hitler to finish the job." So concludes Nicholas Cull
in this absorbing study of how the United States was transformed from
isolationism to belligerence in the years before the attack on Pearl
Harbor. From the moment it realized that all was lost without American
aid, the British Government employed a host of persuasive tactics to
draw the US to its rescue. With the help of talents as varied as those
of matinee idol Leslie Howard, Oxford philosopher Isaiah Berlin and
society photographer Cecil Beaton, no section of America remained
untouched and no method--from Secret Service intrigue to the publication
of horrifying pictures of Nazi atrocities--remained untried. The
British sought and won the support of key journalists and broadcasters,
including Edward R. Murrow, Dorothy Thompson and Walter Winchell;
Hollywood film makers also played a willing part. Cull details these and
other propaganda activities, covering the entire range of the British
effort. A fascinating story of how a foreign country provoked America's involvement in its greatest war, Selling War will appeal to all those interested in the modern cultural and political history of Britain and the United States.
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