In a war-torn world, let Good Books help you
Magazine promotion sheet: white headline over a red-tinted photograph of a ruined arched building, an open book listing five 'Be ... by Good Books' lines, and the magazine's name. The technique is glittering generalities (informed, inspired, strengthened) plus a quoted Newsweek endorsement.
Propaganda techniques used in this advertisement
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- The Saturday Review of Literature
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Advertisement
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Media and information, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
The Saturday Review of Literature. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1087 (NAID 514614).
Text on the object
In a war-torn world, let Good Books help YOU Be informed by Good Books Be stimulated by Good Books Be inspired by Good Books Be refreshed by Good Books Be strengthened by Good Books It's easier to choose and appreciate Good Books by reading The Saturday Review of LITERATURE "The one magazine in America which the adjective literary neatly fits."—NEWSWEEK
