How Propaganda Works

by Jason Stanley and Jason F. Stanley

Book Overview

How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attention

Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us--not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies of the mid-twentieth century. In...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691173427
• ISBN13: 9780691173429
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Critical reading for anyone & everyone in the present crisis of mass psychosis

Extraordinarily eye-opening, well-written and thoroughly researched work by one of the world’s recognized experts on the subject.