| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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Secrets of Victory: The Office of Censorship and the American Press and Radio in World War II. By Michael S. Sweeney. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xii, 274 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2598-0. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4914-6.)

The Office of Censorship (OC) oversaw American newspapers, magazines, films, and radio broadcasts from the weeks following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 until the defeat of the Japanese in August 1945. At its height it employed a staff of over ten thousand. Most important, it established a precedent for the way in which the United States government would treat freedom of the press during war. . . .

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