1 Signs and Portents of War

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Introduction xv
6. Signs and Portents of War 1
7. The Reasons Why: Setting Up the Propaganda Machine 5
8. The Pamphlet War 21
9. Masterman’s Motley Army-and Two Outsiders 37
10. Propaganda in America 54
11. Propaganda From America 68
12. Over There: Drawing the Paper Curtain 79
13. Fiction as Propaganda: War Stories 102
14. Home Fires Burning Low: Fiction as an Escape From Propaganda 117
15. New Brooms of Propaganda 131
16. Lost Opportunities 141
17. Disillusionment and Reconstruction: Writers Reflect on the War 148
18. Epilogue 179
19. Notes 183
20. Bibliographical Note 193
21. Index 195