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"The seven common propaganda devices: Name-Calling, Glittering Generality, Transfer, Testimonial, Plain Folks, Card Stacking, and Band Wagon."
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Institute for Propaganda Analysis — The Seven Devices
Institute for Propaganda Analysis, 'How to Detect Propaganda' (1938)
Author
Institute for Propaganda Analysis
Date
1937–1938
Credibility & evidentiary value

A classic, still-useful taxonomy of rhetorical manipulation devices from a 1930s American civic-education effort. Descriptive framework.

Citation · Chicago

Institute for Propaganda Analysis, 'How to Detect Propaganda,' Propaganda Analysis 1, no. 2 (1937).

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Scholarly SynthesisThe Seven Devices of Propaganda
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