Author

Publication

2015 - Princeton University Press, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

88,250 words, Guess

Page Count

353 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780691164427
  • Open LibraryOL27183033M

Classifications

  • DDC303.375
  • LCCHM1231 .S73 2015
  • LCCHM1231 .S83 2015
and 1 more
  • LCCHM263

Description

Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us--not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies of the mid-twentieth century. In How Propaganda Works, Jason Stanley demonstrates that more attention needs to be paid. He examines how propaganda operates subtly, how it undermines democracy--particularly the ideals of democratic deliberation and equality--and how it has damaged democracies of the past.

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Other Editions

  • How propaganda worksPrinceton University Press2015-01-01

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