Propaganda 1776

Russ Castronovo is is Dorothy Draheim Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era; Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States; and Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom.

• Acknowledgments ; Introduction: Printscapes and Propaganda ; I. State Secrets: Ben Franklin and WikiLeaks ; II. Memes, Plagiarism, and Revolutionary Drama ; III. From East India to the Boston Tea Party: Propaganda at the Extremes ; IV. Epistolary Propaganda: Counterfeits, Stolen Letters, and Transatlantic Revolutions ; V. Aftermath: The Poetry of the Post-Revolution ; Coda ; Bibliography

... both books have done a service to the field of early North American studies in pushing our understandings of rumor, rhetoric, and, yes, propagandistic communications forward. This fascinating field, once opened, should continue to yield new insights and prompt new methods of analysis. We owe a debt to each of these authors for his work in this area.