![]() ![]() He argues not only that the campaign epitomized the presentation of real-time w ar as pop culture, but that it constitutes a significant chapter in the history of m odem democracy. ![]() In this engaging and disturbing book, Paul Rutherford shows how the marketing campaign for the w ar against Iraq was conĀ structed and carried out. The subject of Weapons o f Mass Persuasion is a war in which American patriotism became so mired in commercial jingoism that the demarcations between entertainment and political conduct disappeared. With nearly 60 per cent of Americans initially against a preĀ emptive w ar without sanction from the United Nations-and even higher anti-war numbers in most other nations-the 2003 w ar against Iraq quickly became an enormous public relations challenge for the George W. ![]()
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