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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780042903321

Autore

Sweeney Michael S

Titolo

Secrets of victory [[electronic resource] ] : the Office of Censorship and the American press and radio in World War II / / Michael S. Sweeney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2001

ISBN

979-88-908680-5-3

0-8078-7560-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Disciplina

940.54/88673

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Censorship - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-264) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Conclusion; Notes; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

In World War II, the civilian Office of Censorship supervised a huge and surprisingly successful programme of news management: the voluntary self-censorship of the American press. This work examines that censorship programme, analyzing the reasons for its success, using archival sources.