War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death

War Made Easy cuts through the dense web of spin to probe and scrutinize the key ""perception management"" techniques that have played huge roles in the promotion of American wars in recent decades. This guide to disinformation analyzes American military adventures past and present to reveal striking similarities in the efforts of various administrations to justify, and retain, public support for war. War Made Easy is essential reading. It documents a long series of deliberate misdeeds at the highest levels of power and lays out important guidelines to help readers distinguish a propaganda campaign from actual news reporting. With War Made Easy, every reader can become a savvy media critic and, perhaps, help the nation avoid costly and unnecessary wars.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley (TP)
Published: 06/01/2005
ISBN: 9780471694793
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.42h x 6.52w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Library Journal 07/01/2005 pg. 95
Library Journal 07/15/2005
Christian Century 08/22/2006 pg. 41
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2006 pg. 298