While it only lasted for a year and half, the Committee on Public Information was the first official propaganda machine in the United States. The CPI sold and financed a war, framed the Spanish flu pandemic, and helped birth the field of modern public relations.
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The Coming Shock to the Global Monetary System
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The Coming Shock to the Global Monetary System½months from today, the most significant development in international finance since 1971 will be unveiled.
American Paranoia: How the First World War triggered a wave of xenophobia and a Red Scare
In 1912 Woodrow Wilson was an unlikely Democratic candidate for the presidency, a sometime law professor and president of Princeton who had only served in public office for two years, as governor of New Jersey. But then it would be an unusual election, with a three-way fight. When the incumbent, William Howard Taft, defeated Theodore Roosevelt, his predecessor in the White House, for the Republican nomination, Roosevelt ran as a “Progressive”, splitting the Republican vote and allowing Wilson to win the presidency with little more than two-fifths of the popular vote.
American Paranoia: How the First World War triggered a wave of xenophobia and a Red Scare
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