O' Shaughnessy, Nicholas Jackson <br/><br/>
Politics and propaganda /  Weapons of mass seduction 
Nicholas Jackson O' Shaughnessy 
 - Great Britain :  Manchester University Press,  2004 
 - vii, 264 p. :  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes Index and Bibliographie 
<br/><br/>Pt. I. Defining what and reasoning why --  1. A question of meaning --  2. Explaining propaganda --  Pt. II. A conceptual arrangement --  3. An essential trinity : rhetoric, myth, symbolism --  4. Integuments of propaganda --  Pt. III. Case studies in propaganda --  5. Privatising propaganda --  6. Party propaganda --  7. Propaganda and the Symbolic State : a British experience --  Pt. IV. Marketing war --  8. Nine-eleven and war --  9. Weapons of mass deception : propaganda, the media and the Iraq war. 
<br/><br/> Beginning by defining what exactly propaganda is, this text explores the concept and how it came into existence. It also looks at recent examples of spin, such as the war in Afghanistan, single-issue protest groups, negative advertising and the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780719068539 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Propaganda.<br/>Mass media and propaganda.<br/>Press and politics.