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This is always the danger with propaganda, that it becomes at last more credible to its disseminators than to its targets.

Garry Wills (b. 1934) American author, journalist, historian
The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power, ch. 18 (1981)

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Wills, Garry - The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power, ch. 18 (1981) | WIST Quotations

This is always the danger with propaganda, that it becomes at last more credible to its disseminators than to its targets. Referring to US government efforts in the early 60s to paint Castro's regime in Cuba as weak, eventually leading to the US government itself thinking the regime could be…

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The historian #GarryWills, in an essay on Phillip Knightley’s 1975 book about wartime journalism, “The First Casualty,” wrote, “A #liberaldemocracy submits to #propaganda more readily than a #totalitarian state. #Self‐censorship is always more effective than #bureaucratic #censorship.”

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The Agency Review Jun 29, 2025

What happens when a classics scholar takes a look at leadership – and why you should care. We review #GarryWills terrific #CertainTrumpets: https://wp.me/P23AlC-fX #leadership #business

Wisdom in Space May 26, 2025

This is the highest art, which conceals itself.
-- Garry Wills (Lincoln at Gettysburg)

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The Agency Review Feb 24, 2025

What does a #leader need more than determination, a goal, priorities and focus? A leader needs followers. #GarryWills tells you how they get them. We review #CertainTrumpets: https://wp.me/P23AlC-fX #leadership #business

Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders

This is a book on leadership unlike any other you’ve read, and for that reason alone it is worth reading. For those unfamiliar with the author, Garry Wills, an emeritus professor at Northwestern Un…

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Wisdom in Space Feb 20, 2025

This is the highest art, which conceals itself.
-- Garry Wills (Lincoln at Gettysburg)

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Wisdom in Space Dec 12, 2024

This is the highest art, which conceals itself.
-- Garry Wills (Lincoln at Gettysburg)

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Wisdom in Space Nov 16, 2024

What has crippled our political discourse is a long-indurated habit of demanding from government qualities that should be sought, primarily, in other aspects of our social life. Government plays a limited role in human activity.... It cannot be the family, the church, the local club, the private intellectual circle.... When government does not show all the human virtues, it is rejected as contributing to none of them. That asks too much of government, as a preliminary to expecting nothing of it. This...is a tradition that belittles America, that asks us to love our country by hating our government, that turns our founding fathers into unfounders, that glamorizes frontier settlers in order to demean what they settled, that obliges us to despise the very people we vote for. Our country, our founders, our representatives deserve better. So do we, who sustain them all.
-- Garry Wills

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7sleepersmusic Jun 4, 2024

#CurrentlyListening to a fascinating discussion of #GarryWills' "Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State" via #DissentMagazine's "Know Your Enemy" #Podcast 💣 💥 🤯 cc: @bookstodon #USPol #ColdWar #History #Histodon https://know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/bomb-power-w-erik-baker

Bomb Power (w/ Erik Baker) | Know Your Enemy

Matt and Sam welcome historian Erik Baker onto the podcast to discuss Garry Wills's blistering critique of the national security state and unaccountable presidential power in his 2010 book, Bomb Power.

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