E-Books →The Imposter's War The Press, Propaganda, and the Newsman who Battled for the Minds of America

Russia was not the first foreign power to subvert American popular opinion from inside. In the lead-up to America's entry into the First World War, Germany spent the modern equivalent of one billion dollars to infiltrate American media, industry, and government to undermine the supply chain of the Allied forces. If not for the ceaseless activity of John Revelstoke Rathom, editor of the scrappyProvidence Journal, America may have remained committed to its position of neutrality. But Rathom emerged to galvanize American will, contributing to the conditions necessary for President Wilson to request a Declaration of War from Congress-all the while exposing sensational spy Descriptions and getting German diplomats expelled from the U.S.
And yet John Rathom was not even his real name. His swashbuckling...