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9780840029652 | 3 edition (Cengage Learning, September 4, 2016), cover price $116.95
9780840029669 | 3 edition (Cengage Learning, September 4, 2016), cover price $116.95
9789990174854 | 2 edition (Thomson Learning, March 30, 2006), cover price $0.02
9789990174861 | 2 edition (Thomson Learning, March 30, 2006), cover price $0.02

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In 1955, the United States Information Agency published a lavishly illustrated booklet called My America. Assembled ostensibly to document "the basic elements of a free dynamic society," the booklet emphasized cultural diversity, political freedom, and social mobility and made no mention of McCarthyism or the Cold War. Though hyperbolic, My America was, as Laura A. Belmonte shows, merely one of hundreds of pamphlets from this era written and distributed in an organized attempt to forge a collective defense of the "American way of life."Selling the American Way examines the context, content, and reception of U.S. propaganda during the early Cold War. Determined to protect democratic capitalism and undercut communism, U.S. information experts defined the national interest not only in geopolitical, economic, and military terms. Through radio shows, films, and publications, they also propagated a carefully constructed cultural narrative of freedom, progress, and abundance as a means of protecting national security. Not simply a one-way look at propaganda as it is produced, the book is a subtle investigation of how U.S. propaganda was received abroad and at home and how criticism of it by Congress and successive presidential administrations contributed to its modification.

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9780812240825 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, June 18, 2008, cover price $47.50 | About this edition: In 1955, the United States Information Agency published a lavishly illustrated booklet called My America.

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9780812221190 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, August 3, 2010, cover price $22.50

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By Laura A. Belmonte (editor)

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9780495050186 | 2 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, March 3, 2006), cover price $116.95

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By Laura A. Belmonte (editor)

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9780495050179 | 2 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, March 3, 2006), cover price $116.95

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Product Description: SPEAKING OF AMERICA is a two-volume course reader that exposes college students to a variety of sources on United States history, from the colonial era to the present day. The collection includes a wide array of primary documents, poems, short stories, song lyrics, monograph and article excerpts, and news accounts encompassing multicultural and regional perspectives...read more
By Laura A. Belmonte (editor)

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9780155063556 | Pap/cdr edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, January 1, 2004), cover price $128.95 | About this edition: SPEAKING OF AMERICA is a two-volume course reader that exposes college students to a variety of sources on United States history, from the colonial era to the present day.

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Product Description: SPEAKING OF AMERICA is a two-volume course reader that exposes college students to a variety of sources on United States history, from the colonial era to the present day. The collection includes a wide array of primary documents, poems, short stories, song lyrics, monograph and article excerpts, and news accounts encompassing multicultural and regional perspectives...read more
By Laura A. Belmonte (editor)

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9780155063631 | Pap/com edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, January 1, 2004), cover price $128.95 | About this edition: SPEAKING OF AMERICA is a two-volume course reader that exposes college students to a variety of sources on United States history, from the colonial era to the present day.

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