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Propaganda for War

Autor Stewart Halsey Ross
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 iun 2009
"The Verdict of the VERSAILLES TREATY that Germany and her allies were responsible for the War, in view of the evidence now available, is historically unsound. It should therefore be revised." These are the words of Sidney Bradshaw Fay, noted revisionist historian, on the concluding page of his magisterial Origins of the World War, published in 1928. We now know more about the Great War than merely its origins. We now know that Great Britain's first act of war on 4 August 1914 was to cut the two trans-Atlantic cables that connected Berlin to New York City. We now know that America's professed neutrality in the early years of the conflict was a hoax. We now know that the Cunard passenger liner RMS Lusitania doubled as a munitions ship, and purposefully steamed into harm's way in May 1915. We now know that the alleged atrocities by the German army in Belgium were all lies. We now know that the British organized a massive, covert propaganda apparatus with the goal of dragging America into the war on the side of the Allies. And we now also know that America's involvement in 1917 as a belligerent in Europe was a tragic misstep by anglophile Woodrow Wilson, that had profound implications not only for the United States but for Europe as well, ensuring an even more catastrophic reprise in 1939. Wilson himself declared, "We all know that this was a commercial war," in September 1919. In April 1937, on the 20th anniversary of America's entry into the war, a Gallup Poll found that 70 percent of respondents thought "it was a mistake for the United States to have entered the Great War." Dr. George Gallup himself declared that "this conviction has been the great master principle of the post-war period in the United States". The lesson is forgotten, propaganda for war repeats, and history repeats. The majorities supporting an invasion of Iraq in 2003 turned two years later to 60 percent opposition to the war. . . a lesson learned too late again.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781615771417
ISBN-10: 1615771417
Pagini: 356
Ilustrații: b/w photos
Dimensiuni: 151 x 233 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Progressive Press
Locul publicării:United States

Cuprins

Sacred Proposals & the Spiritual Sublime; "Loke in: How weet a wounde is here!": The Wounds of Christ as a Sacred Space in English Devotional Literature; Suffering in the Service of Venus: The Sacred, the Sublime, & Chaucerian Joy in the Middle Part of the Parliament of Fowls; Listening to Lavinia: Emmanuel Levinas's Saying & Said in Titus Andronicus; Precious Stories: The Discursive Economy in Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece; The Sacred Pain of Penitence: The Theology of John Donne's Holy Sonnets; Bearing the Cross: The Christian's Response to Suffering in Herbert's The Temple; Horrific Suffering, Sacred Terror, & Sublime Freedom in Helen Maria Williams's Peru; Joanna Baillie & the Christian Gothic: Reforming Society Through the Sublime; Sacramental Suffering & the Waters of Redemption & Transformation in George Eliot's Fiction; Christina Rossetti & the Poetics of Tractarian Suffering; Suffering in Word & in Truth: Seventeenth & Nineteenth Century Quaker Women's Autobiography; Sacramental Imagination: Eucharists of the Ordinary Universe in the Works of Joyce, Proust, & Woolf; The Via Negativa in E M Forster's A Passage to India; Consolation in Un/certainty: The Sacred Spaces of Suffering in the Children's Fantasy Literature of George MacDonald, C S Lewis, & Madeleine L'Engle; The Messiah of History: The Search for Synchronicity in Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz; Suffering & the Sacred: Hugh Hood's The New Age / Le nouveau siecle; Fictional Violations in Alice Munro's Narratives; Thomas Merton & the Aesthetics of the Sublime: A Beautiful Terror; Belated Beloved: Time, Trauma, & the Sublime in Toni Morrison's Beloved; Annie Dillard on Holy Ground: The Artist as Nun in the Postmodern Sublime; Passion Plays by Proxy: The Paschal Face as Interculturality in Endo Shusaku & Mishima Yukio; Testifying to the Infinity of the Other: The Sacred & Ethical Dimensions of Secondary Witnessing in Anne Karpf's The War After; Sacred Space & the Fellowship of Suffering in the Postmodern Sublime; Suffering Divine Things: Cruciform Reasoning or Incarnational Hermeneutics; Index.

Descriere

Ross discusses how the British organized a massive, covert propaganda apparatus with the goal of dragging America into the Great War of 1914-1918 on the side of the Allies.