Holtman, Robert B.
Published by Greenwood Press, New York, 1969
Hardcover in very good condition. No dust jacket as issued.
A demonstration of propaganda in France and French-occupied regions during the period of Napoleon’s ascendancy. The author’s treatment might be itemized under the following headings: (1) what Napoleon tried, as the phrase goes, “to sell” to his subjects concerning the shortcomings, errors, and crimes of his enemies and the benefits, virtues, and glory of his efforts or achievements in war and peace; (2) the formal structure of his propaganda control; (3) the various mediums of propagandist communication; (4) the particular devices that he employed to make the message stick; and, finally, (5) an estimate of the effectiveness of mediums, devices, and governmental controls.
Holtman, Robert B.
Published by Greenwood Press, New York, 1969
Hardcover in very good condition. No dust jacket as issued.
A demonstration of propaganda in France and French-occupied regions during the period of Napoleon’s ascendancy. The author’s treatment might be itemized under the following headings: (1) what Napoleon tried, as the phrase goes, “to sell” to his subjects concerning the shortcomings, errors, and crimes of his enemies and the benefits, virtues, and glory of his efforts or achievements in war and peace; (2) the formal structure of his propaganda control; (3) the various mediums of propagandist communication; (4) the particular devices that he employed to make the message stick; and, finally, (5) an estimate of the effectiveness of mediums, devices, and governmental controls.
