| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945–1989. By Nicholas J. Cull. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxvi, 533 pp. $125.00, ISBN 978-0-521-81997-8.)

Public diplomacy played an increasingly important role in the post–World War II years. In The Cold War and the United States Information Agency, Nicholas J. Cull, a professor of public diplomacy at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, chronicles the birth, growth, and demise of the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), America's vibrant and visible propaganda organization. In a clear, crisp account that draws on both archival sources and more than one hundred interviews with major figures in the agency, Cull makes a compelling case for the need for public diplomacy in the world today.

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