“Bernays’ honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies.”—Noam Chomsky “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of s...(展开全部)

Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us—not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies of the mid-twentieth century. In How Propaganda ...(展开全部)

Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us—not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies of the mid-twentieth century. In How Propaganda ...(展开全部)

With his smooth, warm, red face which radiated light in all directions, Chairman Mao Zedong was a fixture in Chinese propaganda posters produced between the birth of the People's Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s. These infamous posters were, in turn, central fixtures in Chinese homes, railway stations, schools, journals, magazines, and just about anywhere else where people ...(展开全部)

这是一本收集上个世纪1949年到80年代的宣传海报的一本书，反映了那个年代中国人民生活的点点滴滴，也体现出人民对美好生活的向往，如今这些海报少之又少，本书给了我们更多了解过去的中国人民对于生活美好愿景的机会。

Amazon.com Review Besides reproducing the stunning, otherworldly beauty of Michael Wolf's massive Chinese propaganda poster collection so brightly it practically gives you a suntan, his book gives you a sense of how the illiterate masses used these images instead of newspapers and TV to get the news and define themselves. In the introduction, the brilliant Anchee Min explains h...(展开全部)

[美]埃利奥特·阿伦森（Elliot Aronson），当代著名的社会心理学家，被公认为全球杰出的、研究范围广泛的社会心理学家之一。他对劝导、社会吸引力、减少偏见和认知失调等主题的研究代表了社会心理学领域重要的、具有开创性的一些实验。他是美国心理学会110年历史上唯一囊括三个主要学术奖项的人：杰出教学奖、杰出研究奖和杰出写作奖。阿伦森博士著述甚丰，包括《社会性动物》（The Social Animal）、《绝非偶然》（Not by Chance Alone）、《社会心理学研究方法》（Methods of Research in Social Psychology）和《不让一个孩子受伤害》（Nobody Left to Hate）等。 [美]安东尼·普拉卡尼斯（Anthony Pratkanis），加州大学圣克鲁斯分校心理学教授，美国心理学会会员，研究...(展开全部)

https://www.routledge.com/Propaganda-Ideas-Discourses-and-its-Legitimization/Liu/p/book/9780367373979#toc Propaganda is subjective information primarily used to influence an audience and further a political agenda. In China, it has a long history but has been most effective in modern society. What exactly is propaganda? Why does it exist and why does the public tolerate it? The...(展开全部)

This seminal study and critique of propaganda from one of the greatest French philosophers of the 20th century is as relevant today as when it was first published in 1962. Taking not only a psychological approach, but a sociological approach as well, Ellul’s book outlines the taxonomy for propaganda, and ultimately, it’s destructive nature towards democracy. Drawing from his ow...(展开全部)

This seminal study and critique of propaganda from one of the greatest French philosophers of the 20th century is as relevant today as when it was first published in 1962. Taking not only a psychological approach, but a sociological approach as well, Ellul’s book outlines the taxonomy for propaganda, and ultimately, it’s destructive nature towards democracy. Drawing from his ow...(展开全部)