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Propaganda and Society
Becker, Carl | December 11, 1935 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Propaganda, Its Psychology and Technique," by Leonard W. Doob. In the U.S. the word propaganda, as Daub says, "has a bad odor. It is associated with the war and other evil practices." One may say that it is only since the war that it has had any odor at all: although both the word and the thing are old, it is only since the war that people generally have become familiar with the word or conscious of the thing. Long before the war everyone was familiar with advertising and political oratory, but no one thought of them as propaganda. Even now few people think of them as propaganda.

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PROPAGANDA: Its Psychology & Technique (Book); DOOB, Leonard W.; PROPAGANDA; COMMUNICATION in politics; POLITICAL psychology; POLITICAL oratory
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