In the midst of the current hysteria over selling the Iraq war, let's look for a little perspective. James Lileks has a neat little archive of WWII-era domestic propaganda. It serves as a reminder of just how brutally manipulative the government was throughout the "good war" and how very far we have come since those days of enforced national unity and maximal "social capital."
By the way, I have heard it asserted several times that during WWII the government censored all images of dead or dying troops in order to "sanitize" the war. So much for that idea....
Check out Lileks' archive here. While you're there look around -- he has a lot of neat stuff -- and buy his latest book.
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