Franco sells Spain to America : Hollywood, tourism and public relations as postwar Spanish soft power /
Rosendorf, Neal M.,1960-author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Be El Caudillo's guest: postwar American tourism to Franco Spain -- "Hollywood in Madrid": the American film industry and the Franco regime -- The Franco regime's postwar US public relations strategies: media, messages, and relationships in America -- The oppression of Spain's Protestants and Jews: neutralizing the Franco regime's key US reputational threat -- The Spanish Pavilion at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair: Franco Spain's $7 million US outreach summa -- Conclusion: success, inertia, death, democracy and a fallacy.
Franco, Francisco, 1892-1975.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
World War, 1939-1945