The Power to Persuade: FDR, the Newsmagazines, and Going to War, 1939-1941University Press of America, 2005 - 247 pages The Power to Persuade is the true story of four magazines that persuaded the opposition to support America's entry into World War II, and rallied the electorate to demand belligerent military confrontation against the Nazi-led Axis. In the decisive pre-war years of 1939-1941, four major news magazines, Life, Look, Newsweek, and Time, reached over 40 million readers weekly, or almost 50% of the American electorate. The national audience of these magazines was a key component of the American electorate. Generally middle to upper class, this readership was not an element of President Roosevelt's electoral coalition. Indeed, it was the main component of Roosevelt's political opposition. Yet, by the end of November 1941, that opposition had joined Roosevelt's electoral consensus. The transformation of the American electorate, from the fervent neutrality in 1939, to active belligerence against the Axis powers in 1941, is at the heart of the electorate's evolving support for a role for the United States as the leader of the western alliance. The American Role as the leader of the alliance against the Axis, was rooted in this radical transformation of the American electorate. American unity during WWII and consensus after the war was formulated in this transformation and leadership role. What drove this radical transformation is the question at the center of this book. |
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... Lindley , 7/10/41 ; E. Lindley to M. Thompson , 12 / 11/41 . 26. FDR Library , Rowe Collection , Series Description . The Rowe collection yields little of his work in this period and nothing of any relationship with the national news ...
... Lindley , 7/10/41 ; E. Lindley to M. Thompson , 12 / 11/41 . 26. FDR Library , Rowe Collection , Series Description . The Rowe collection yields little of his work in this period and nothing of any relationship with the national news ...
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... Lindley was named Washington bureau chief of Newsweek in 1937 , the year Harriman began at the Commerce Department . Lindley's appointment had the effect of forcing Raymond Moley , then a Roosevelt critic , who had helped found Newsweek ...
... Lindley was named Washington bureau chief of Newsweek in 1937 , the year Harriman began at the Commerce Department . Lindley's appointment had the effect of forcing Raymond Moley , then a Roosevelt critic , who had helped found Newsweek ...
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... Lindley , 10/19/39 . 9. FDR Library , Stephen T. Early Collection , HRL to STE , 1/23/35 ; STE to FDR re : HRL , 10/19/39 , 2/23/40 , 1/19/42 ; and Lindley and Muir , Newsweek , April 22 , 1940 , EKL to STE . 10. FDR Library , Stephen T ...
... Lindley , 10/19/39 . 9. FDR Library , Stephen T. Early Collection , HRL to STE , 1/23/35 ; STE to FDR re : HRL , 10/19/39 , 2/23/40 , 1/19/42 ; and Lindley and Muir , Newsweek , April 22 , 1940 , EKL to STE . 10. FDR Library , Stephen T ...
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Administration's foreign advertising aid to Britain Allies American electorate antiwar approximately April Archibald MacLeish August average Battle of Britain belligerency British campaign Cantril Churchill circulation Collection confrontation Congress cover coverage Cowles December defense policy initiatives editorial content efforts Eleanor Roosevelt FDR Library foreign and defense four newsmagazines France French Harriman Harry Hopkins Henry Henry Luce Hitler Hopkins intensity isolationism issue Japan Japanese July June lead stories leaders Lend-Lease Lindbergh Lindley Look Look's Luce Luce's magazines March measure Mellett military million mobilization Morgenthau National Affairs national newsmagazines Navy Nazi German Neutrality Act newsmagazines newspapers newsreels Newsweek October Pearl Harbor percent period phony war political consensus polling preparedness presentation presidential Public Opinion quarter Radio Audience readership rearmament reflected Republican response Roosevelt Administration September sevelt sought Soviet Russia Time's tion U.S. Army United war-related wartime events Wendell Willkie World World War II York