Book Review: ''Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power''

From CounterPunch
By Joan Roelofs

''In addition to the incorporation of elites, mass public opinion and propaganda were not neglected by the foundations. Before and during World War II, The Rockefeller Foundation funded Princeton’s Office of Public Opinion Research led by Hadley Cantril, to enhance the “case for belligerence and to crush the case for isolation and neutrality.” “The U.S. Army. . . even went so far as to open an office at Princeton. . . a ‘Psychological Warfare Research Bureau.''

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