Spinning history
Subtitle: politics and propaganda in World War II
By: Nathaniel Lande
Publisher: Skyhorse; SKYHORSE
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781510715868
Subjects: Drama; Theater and state; World War, 1939-1945; Mass media and nationalism; Political aspects; Propaganda
Other titles: Politics and propaganda in World War II
Description: "Bestselling author and historian Nathaniel Lande explores the Great War at the heart of the twentieth century through the prism of theater. He presents the war as a drama that evolved and developed as it progressed, a production staged and overseen by four contrasting masters: Roosevelt, Churchill, Hitler, and Stalin"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Act I. Behind the scenes in a sundered country : the Nazis set the stage in the European Theater. Introducing the Führer, Joseph Goebbels, and Heinrich Himmler; title: The road to the Third Reich; title: From choric theater to party rally; title: From party rally to German cinema; title: Theater of the absurd; title: Entr'acte; title: Act II. Curtain going up : the lion roars. The home front : to the airwaves; title: A counter-message gets through; title: The British rewrite the German script; title: Two British radio stations; title: Act III. Point/counterpoint : dramatic conflict. Roosevelt and the isolationists; title: Churchill and Roosevelt write the script backstage; title: The Nazi counter-message to America; title: FDR and a platoon of poets; title: The American "patriotic" press responds!; title: War comes to America's movie theaters; title: On the road with Wild Bill Donovan; title: Act IV. Before the final curtain. The Allies launch a crusade; title: Stalingrad compels a revision of the Nazi script; title: Interlude; title: The Tehran Conference; title: A D-Day production; title: Miscues and misinterpretations of the Allied script; title: Operation Joker; title: The beginning of the end; title: The end of the beginning.