World War I established the roots of the systemic production and dissemination of propaganda. Learn about the beginning of pervasive propaganda in the U.S. Join Dr. John Maxwell Hamilton, fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a professor at Louisiana State University, in discussion on is new book Manipulating the Masses. Explore how the Committee on Public Information (CPI) became the nation’s first and only ministry of propaganda and how those attitudes and techniques have carried on. For more information about the National WWI Museum and Memorial visit
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