How Mcgruff And The Crying Indian Changed America

Author : Wendy Melillo
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781588342232

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How McGruff and the Crying Indian Changed America by Wendy Melillo Pdf

Pulitzer Prize nominated journalist Wendy Melillo authors the first book to explore the history of the Ad Council and the campaigns that brought public service announcements to the nation through the mass media. How McGruff and the Crying Indian Changed America: A History of Iconic Ad Council Campaigns details how public service advertising campaigns became part of our national conversation and changed us as a society. The Ad Council began during World War II as a propaganda arm of President Roosevelt's administration to preserve its business interests. Happily for the ad industry, it was a double play: the government got top-notch work; the industry got an insider relationship that proved useful when warding off regulation. From Rosie the Riveter to Smokey Bear to McGruff the Crime Dog, How McGruff and the Crying Indian Changed America explores the issues and campaigns that have been paramount to the nation's collective memory and looks at challenges facing public service campaigns in the current media environment.

Author : Laura Goldblatt,Richard Handler
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-13
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780231557337

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The American Stamp by Laura Goldblatt,Richard Handler Pdf

More than three thousand different images appeared on United States postage stamps from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Limited at first to the depiction of a small cast of characters and patriotic images, postal iconography gradually expanded as the Postal Service sought to depict the country’s history in all its diversity. This vast breadth has helped make stamp collecting a widespread hobby and made stamps into consumer goods in their own right. Examining the canon of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American stamps, Laura Goldblatt and Richard Handler show how postal iconography and material culture offer a window into the contested meanings and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship. They argue that postage stamps, which are both devices to pay for a government service and purchasable items themselves, embody a crucial tension: is democracy defined by political agency or the freedom to buy? The changing images and uses of stamps reveal how governmental authorities have attempted to navigate between public service and businesslike efficiency, belonging and exclusion, citizenship and consumerism. Stamps are vehicles for state messaging, and what they depict is tied up with broader questions of what it means to be American. Goldblatt and Handler combine historical, sociological, and iconographic analysis of a vast quantity of stamps with anthropological exploration of how postal customers and stamp collectors behave. At the crossroads of several disciplines, this book casts the symbolic and material meanings of stamps in a wholly new light.

Author : Melissa Feinberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190644628

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Curtain of Lies by Melissa Feinberg Pdf

While the Cold War governments of Eastern Europe operated within the confines of the Soviet worldview, their peoples confronted the narratives of both East and West. From the Soviet Union and its satellites, they heard of a West dominated by imperialist warmongers and of the glorious future only Communism could bring. A competing discourse emanated from the West, claiming that Eastern Europe was a totalitarian land of captive slaves, powerless in the face of Soviet aggression. In Curtain of Lies, Melissa Feinberg conducts a timely examination into the nature of truth, using the political culture of Eastern Europe during the Cold War as her foundation. Focusing on the period between 1948 and 1956, she looks at how the "truth" of Eastern Europe was delineated by actors on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Feinberg offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as a shared political environment, exploring the ways in which ordinary East Europeans interacted with these competing understandings of their homeland. She approaches this by looking at the relationship between the American-sponsored radio stations broadcast across the Iron Curtain and the East European émigrés they interviewed as sources on life under Communism. Feinberg's careful analysis reveals that these parties developed mutually reinforced assumptions about the meaning of Communism, helping to create the evidentiary foundation for totalitarian interpretations of Communist rule in Eastern Europe. In bridging the geopolitical and the individual, Curtain of Lies provides a perspective that is both innovative in its methodology and indispensable to its field.

Author : Martin Halliwell
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520379404

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American Health Crisis by Martin Halliwell Pdf

A history of U.S. public health emergencies and how we can turn the tide. Despite enormous advances in medical science and public health education over the last century, access to health care remains a dominant issue in American life. U.S. health care is often hailed as the best in the world, yet the public health emergencies of today often echo the public health emergencies of yesterday: consider the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 and COVID-19, the displacement of the Dust Bowl and the havoc of Hurricane Maria, the Reagan administration’s antipathy toward the AIDS epidemic and the lack of accountability during the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Spanning the period from the presidency of Woodrow Wilson to that of Donald Trump, American Health Crisis illuminates how—despite the elevation of health care as a human right throughout the world—vulnerable communities in the United States continue to be victimized by structural inequalities across disparate geographies, income levels, and ethnic groups. Martin Halliwell views contemporary public health crises through the lens of historical and cultural revisionings, suturing individual events together into a narrative of calamity that has brought us to our current crisis in health politics. American Health Crisis considers the future of public health in the United States and, presenting a reinvigorated concept of health citizenship, argues that now is the moment to act for lasting change.

Author : Samuel C. Spitale
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781683693093

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How to Win the War on Truth by Samuel C. Spitale Pdf

Made to Stick by Chip Heath meets Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe in this illustrated guide to navigating today’s post-truth landscape, filled with real-world examples of disinformation campaigns. The average person receives 4,000 to 10,000 media messages a day. It’s no wonder we struggle to separate the news from the noise and fact from fiction--but in these unprecedented times, it’s essential to democracy that we do. For anyone struggling to figure out how to live--and vote--their values, How to Win the War on Truth is here to help. You’ll learn: • The history of propaganda, from Edward Bernays to Fox News • Why simple messages are so powerful • How social messaging creates unconscious biases • Who profits from propaganda • How propaganda is manufactured and delivered directly to you Filled with real-world examples of disinformation campaigns that impact every citizen and clever illustration, How to Win the War on Truth will help you see the world with clear eyes for the first time.

Author : Michele Barbier,Angel Borja,Johannes Karstensen,Michelle Scobie
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889766673

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Ocean Sciences and Ethics by Michele Barbier,Angel Borja,Johannes Karstensen,Michelle Scobie Pdf

Dr. Michèle Barbier is the founder of the private Institute for Science and Ethics. The other Topic Editors declare no competing interests with regards to the Research Topic theme.

Author : Winston Fletcher
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780191614279

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Advertising: A Very Short Introduction by Winston Fletcher Pdf

How advertising works is not a question that has a simple answer. Advertising is a diverse entity and different campaigns work (or fail to work) in a plethora of different ways. Most advertising persuades people to buy things, but how? And who does it aim to persuade? And how are these decisions made? In this Very Short Introduction Winston Fletcher, an expert with extensive knowledge of advertising from the inside, aims to answer these questions, and in doing so, dispels some of the myths and misunderstandings surrounding the industry. The book contains a short history of advertising and an explanation of how the industry works, and how each of the parties (the advertisers , the media and the agencies) are involved. It considers the extensive spectrum of advertisers and their individual needs. It also looks at the financial side of advertising and asks how advertisers know if they have been successful, or whether the money they have spent has in fact been wasted. Fletcher concludes with a discussion about the controversial and unacceptable areas of advertising such as advertising products to children and advertising products such as cigarettes and alcohol. He also discusses the benefits of advertising and what the future may hold for the industry. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : United States. Department of Justice. Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : Police-community relations
ISBN : 193567644X

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Implementing Community Policing by United States. Department of Justice. Office of Community Oriented Policing Services Pdf

Over time, the community policing reform movement has come to mean many different things to different people. In fact, the community policing movement has wrestled with tension between philosophical ambiguity and implementation specificity for years. So what is community policing? What does it look like? What does it mean when a police agency says that it practices community policing? This report explores these questions by examining the implementation of community policing in 12 local police agencies across the nation, drawing conclusions from tangible and visible phenomena about what "community policing" means to the agencies claiming to practice it. It describes and analyzes the experiences of local law enforcement agencies and the lessons learned as they work to define, make sense of, and implement community policing, and synthesizes what was learned in eight community policing topic-specific chapters. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach to implementing community policing or any other innovation, this report offers police officials at all levels, from patrol officers to police chiefs, ideas that can be used in their own organizations to help implement effective community policing throughout the United States.

Author : Lester M Salamon
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815724360

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The State of Nonprofit America by Lester M Salamon Pdf

Today, America's nonprofit organizations seem caught in a force field, buffeted by four impulses—voluntarism, professionalism, civic activism, and commercialism. Too little attention, however, has been paid to the significant tensions among these impulses. Understanding this force field and the factors shaping its dynamics thus becomes central to understanding the future of particular organizations and of the nonprofit sector as a whole. In this second edition of an immensely successful volume, Lester Salamon and his colleagues offer an overview of the current state of America's nonprofit sector, examining the forces that are shaping its future and identifying the changes that might be needed. The State of Nonprofit America has been completely revised and updated to reflect changing political realities and the punishing economic climate currently battering the nonprofit sector, which faces significant financial challenges during a time when its services are needed more than ever. The result is a comprehensive analysis of a set of institutions that Alexis de Tocqueville recognized to be "more deserving of our attention" than any other part of the American experiment.

Author : Michael Moore
Publisher : Pan
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : American Wit And Humour
ISBN : 0330419153

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Downsize This! by Michael Moore Pdf

Michael Moore has established himself as someone who just won't shut up, go away, or otherwise do what political and corporate fat cats would like him to do. He lifts the veil on the people who set themselves up as role models and exposes their vulnerable underbellies.

Author : Peace Corps (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Technical assistance, American
ISBN : OSU:32435014288849

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Peace Corps Handbook by Peace Corps (U.S.) Pdf

Author : E.E. Knight
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440639166

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Valentine's Exile by E.E. Knight Pdf

David Valentine is revered as a hero for his part in fighting to regain Earth's freedom. When a former Quisling traitor is badly wounded, he asks Valentine to find his wife, who has vanished into the darkness of the Kurian Order. With the help of old friends and new allies, Valentine traces her to a mysterious, heavily guarded compound in Ohio. And what Valentine finds within will shake his sanity to its very core.

Author : Lori DuPont,Joanne Foley,Annette Gagliardi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015060642884

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Raising Children with Roots, Rights & Responsibilities by Lori DuPont,Joanne Foley,Annette Gagliardi Pdf

Author : Collins Publishers Staff,David Hamilton Murdoch,Stanley A. Freed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 0732250692

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North American Indian by Collins Publishers Staff,David Hamilton Murdoch,Stanley A. Freed Pdf

Introduces the history and cultures of Native Americans, from the Pueblo-dwellers of the Southwest to the Inuit hunters of the frozen North. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, secondary.

Author : Ronald D. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135634421

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Strategic Planning for Public Relations by Ronald D. Smith Pdf

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.