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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... France on the morning of May 10 , 1940. The crucial event of the next four ... England . The French Air Force proved incapable of defending itself , the ... France in anticipation the Battle of Britain.12 Churchill was pleading with ...
... France on the morning of May 10 , 1940. The crucial event of the next four ... England . The French Air Force proved incapable of defending itself , the ... France in anticipation the Battle of Britain.12 Churchill was pleading with ...
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... France fallen it was almost beyond hope that England can stand off Germany for very long . Only slim hope is that England might hold the Germans until effective aid begins pouring in from America.88 The ensuing issues of 1940 brought ...
... France fallen it was almost beyond hope that England can stand off Germany for very long . Only slim hope is that England might hold the Germans until effective aid begins pouring in from America.88 The ensuing issues of 1940 brought ...
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... France's refusal to consider negotiations to end the war . With the war moving into the phase called the phony war ... England , 120 The year 1939 played out with the war that was prophesied by Time . Yet once it began and the Allies entered ...
... France's refusal to consider negotiations to end the war . With the war moving into the phase called the phony war ... England , 120 The year 1939 played out with the war that was prophesied by Time . Yet once it began and the Allies entered ...
Table des matières
The Threat | 15 |
The Newsmagazines in Wartime | 30 |
The Roosevelt Administration and the News Media | 80 |
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