Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare 1945-60

Robin Ramsay

Christopher Simpson, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1994. This is the Simpson who wrote Blowback. This is hard to describe. From the cover blurb: the author demonstrates how the government-funded psychological warfare programs of the Cold War years under-wrote the academic studies that formed the basis for much of modern communication research.’ I ... Read more

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