The Cold War and the United States Information Agency (Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communication)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 31, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9780521819978
Subjects: International relations; Propaganda; USA; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000
Description: "Published at a time when the U.S. government's public diplomacy is in crisis, this book provides an exhaustive account of how it used to be done. The United States Information Agency was created, in 1953, to "tell America's story to the world" and, by engaging with the world through international information, broadcasting, culture, and exchange programs, became an essential element of American foreign policy during the Cold War. Based on newly declassified archives and more than 100 interviews with veterans of public diplomacy, from the Truman administration to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nicholas J. Cull relates both the achievements and the endemic flaws of American public diplomacy in this period."--Jacket.