Wake Up, America.  World War I and the American Poster.
World War I coincided with a golden age of achievement in the art of poster design, and all sides in the conflict employed the best talents to make maximum use of the poster's ability to stir emotions. This book tries to re-create a more innocent era in which a poster could be used to "sell" a war. While the book is undeniably attractive, it covers too much ground and is too unfocused (despite the title, posters from many countries are illustrated; further, too many nonposter forms of propaganda are considered.) Instead of offering insights, the text simply rehashes popular World War I history adequately covered elsewhere. The general reader will find this sprawling study more confusing than enlightening. Stephen Rees, Bucks Cty. Free Lib., Levittown, Pa.Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an alternateHardcoveredition.