The Great War of Words: British, American, and Canadian Propaganda and Fiction, 1914-1933 (review)
It was prophetic that before the Great War, the English phUosopher Graham Wallas proposed that reason was not the sole basis for men's actions; men acted through "affectations" and "instincts" that could be aroused and charted through [artful] manipulation. Although at the turn of the century public opinion was most directly influenced by famous writers, one reads with incredulity the details and consequences of a 2 September 1914 meeting of twenty-five British authors at Wellington House in London, headquarters of Britain's War Propaganda Bureau.