Susan Brewer
sbrewer@uwsp.edu

Susan A. Brewer is the author of Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq (Oxford, 2009) and To Win the Peace: British Propaganda in the United States during World War II (Cornell, 1997). She is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

Contributions

Battlefields may change but propaganda remains constant
ASK THIS | February 57, 2010
On the one hand, in wartime the news media serve the government by passing along its message; on the other hand, the media need to tell people what’s really going on and what wars are about. Author Susan Brewer focuses on that dual role, and offers a line of questioning to help cut through the packaging.