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"A people's guide to baloney-detecting."
-Seattle Times

Americans create 57% of the world's advertising while representing only 6% of its population; half of our waking hours are spent immersed in the mass media. Persuasion has always been integral to the democratic process, but increasingly, thoughtful discussion is being replaced with simplistic soundbites and manipulative messages.

Drawing on the history of propaganda as well as on contemporary research in social psychology, Age of Propaganda shows how the tactics used by political campaigners, sales agents, advertisers, televangelists, demagogues, and others often take advantage of our emotions by appealing to our deepest fears and most irrational hopes, creating a distorted vision of the world we live in.

This revised and updated edition includes coverage of the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, recent election campaigns, talk radio, teen suicide, U.F.O. abductions, the Columbine shootings, and novel propaganda tactics based on hypocrisy and false allegations.

Anthony Pratkanis is a researcher, consultant, media commentator, and a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His books include Weapons of Fraud, The Science of Social Influence, and Age of Propaganda.

Elliot Aronson is one of our nation's most eminent social psychologists. He has taught at Harvard University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Texas, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has written more than twenty books, including The Social Animal, Social Psychology, and Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me).