| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

God Bless America: Tin Pan Alley Goes to War. By Kathleen E. R. Smith. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. ix, 274 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8131-2256-2.)
Americans went off to war in World War I singing such popular songs as "Over There" and "It's a Long Long Way to Tipperary." More than eight decades later the two songs are still identified with World War I.	1
Several months after the United States entered World War II, the federal government created a propaganda agency, the Office of War Information (OWI). The goal of OWI was to raise the morale of Americans on the home front and at the front lines. The agency used Hollywood movies, radio, newspapers, and pamphlets constantly to urge Americans to support the war effort and hoped that, as in World War I, music would play a major role in American morale.	2
Kathleen E. R. Smith, who teaches history at Northwestern State University of Louisiana, details the efforts of the OWI and the American music industry in her book God Bless America. Writing catchy lyrics about antifascism, the merits of democracy, or the strengths of the United Nations, however, proved to be an impossible task.	. . .

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