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Beware the British serpent : the role of writers in British propaganda in the United States, 1939-1945 /

During World War II, the United States was the target of what Gore Vidal has called "the largest, most intricate and finally most successful conspiracy directed at it in the twentieth century"--Great Britain's "vast conspiracy to manoeuvre an essentially isolationist country into...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Calder, Robert, 1941-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Illustrations
  • The Yanks Aren't Coming
  • The Strangling Old School Tie
  • The Magic of the Word
  • Making the War Seem Personal
  • Uncoordinated Observations
  • One God-Damned Thing after Another
  • A Sad Story of Official Duplicity
  • Unheralded Ambassadors from England
  • Thrilling and Dramatic Fiction
  • A Friendly Intruder in a Non-Belligerent World
  • The Most Gigantic Engines of Propaganda
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index