{"id":59746,"date":"2018-06-13T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T23:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=59746"},"modified":"2023-05-10T15:46:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T20:46:51","slug":"lee-presents-book-on-wartime-propaganda-at-roosevelt-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/lee-presents-book-on-wartime-propaganda-at-roosevelt-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee presents book on wartime propaganda at Roosevelt library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mordecai Lee is one of 15 featured authors who will be presenting and signing books at the 2018 Roosevelt Reading Festival at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York. The event on Saturday, June 16, marks the 15th anniversary of the Roosevelt Reading Festival, featuring publications that draw on materials from the library\u2019s archives.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_59750\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59750\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-59750 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2018\/06\/wartimeposter1-vert-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the many posters produced by Robert Horton during World War II<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lee, a professor of urban planning at UWM, will discuss his book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/lsupress.org\/books\/detail\/promoting-the-war-effort\/\">Promoting the War Effort: Robert Horton and Federal Propaganda, 1938-1946<\/a>,\u201d at 10 a.m. in the library\u2019s Reading Room C. \u201cPromoting the War Effort\u201d is the only book length study of Roosevelt\u2019s chief public relations strategist during the New Deal, World War II and the president\u2019s third campaign for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>According to publisher LSU Press, \u201c\u2019Promoting the War Effort\u2019\u00a0recovers this influential figure in American politics and contributes to the ongoing public debate about government public relations during a time when questions about how facts are disseminated \u2014 and spun \u2014 are of greater relevance than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee\u2019s talk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?446655-2\/promoting-war-effort\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will be broadcast<\/a> on C-SPAN\u2019s \u201cBook TV\u201d at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mordecai Lee is one of 15 featured authors who will be presenting and signing books at the 2018 Roosevelt Reading Festival at the Franklin D. 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