General works of considerable significance include: FREDERICK C. BARGHOORN, The Soviet Cultural Offensive (1960, reprinted 1976), and Soviet Foreign Propaganda (1964); KARL W. DEUTSCH, The Nerves of Government: Models of Political Communication and Control (1963, reprinted 1966); LEWIS A. DEXTER and DAVID M. WHITE (eds.), People, Society, and Mass Communications (1964); LEONARD W. DOOB, Public Opinion and Propaganda, 2nd ed. (1966); JACQUES ELLUL, Propaganda (1965, reprinted 1973; originally published in French); LEON FESTINGER, A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (1957); ALEXANDER L. GEORGE, Propaganda Analysis: A Study of Inferences Made from Nazi Propaganda in World War II (1959, reprinted 1973); R.T. HOLT and R.W. VAN DE VELDE, Strategic Psychological Operations and American Foreign Policy (1960); IRVING L. JANIS et al., Personality and Persuasibility (1959, reprinted 1982); JOSEPH T. KLAPPER, The Effects of Mass Communication (1960); HAROLD D. LASSWELL, Propaganda Technique in the World War (1927, reprinted 1972); HAROLD D. LASSWELL and D. BLUMENSTOCK, World Revolutionary Propaganda (1939, reprinted 1970); HAROLD D. LASSWELL et al., Language of Politics (1949, reprinted 1965); HAROLD D. LASSWELL, DANIEL LERNER and I. DE SOLA POOL, The Comparative Study of Symbols (1952); BERNARD R. BERELSON, PAUL F. LAZARSFELD, and WILLIAM N. McPHEE, Voting: A Study of Opinion Formation in a Presidential Campaign (1954, reprinted 1966); ELIHU KATZ and PAUL F. LAZARSFELD, Personal Influence (1955, reprinted 1965); DANIEL LERNER (ed.), Sykewar: Psychological Warfare Against Germany, D-Day to VE-Day (1949, reissued 1971), and Propaganda in War and Crisis (1951, reissued 1972); JOE McGINNISS, The Selling of the President, 1968 (1969, reissued 1974); PHILIP SELZNICK, The Organizational Weapon: A Study of Bolshevik Strategy and Tactics (1952, reprinted 1979); RALPH K. WHITE, Nobody Wanted War: Misperception in Vietnam and Other Wars, rev. ed. (1970); and TE-CHI YU, Mass Persuasion in Communist China (1964).
On propaganda aspects of diplomatic negotiation, see FRED C. IKLÉ, How Nations Negotiate (1964, reprinted 1982); and HAROLD G. NICOLSON, Diplomacy, 3rd ed. (1963, reprinted 1969). For aspects of propaganda problems in less-developed areas, see LUCIAN W. PYE (ed.), Communications and Political Development (1963); and WILBUR L. SCHRAMM, Mass Media and National Development (1964).
On legal aspects and social control of propaganda, see L. JOHN MARTIN, International Propaganda: Its Legal and Diplomatic Control (1958); B.S. MURTY, Propaganda and World Public Order (1968); HAROLD D. LASSWELL, Democracy Through Public Opinion (1941); JOHN B. WHITTON and ARTHUR LARSON, Propaganda Towards Disarmament in the War of Words (1964); and JOHN W. BURTON, Conflict and Communication: The Use of Controlled Communication in International Relations (1969).
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