Author of "Outwitting the Hun": Read His Book, Hear His Lecture

A smiling airman in a flying jacket stands in front of a biplane, gripping its propeller, under the headline 'Outwitting the Hun'. The text promotes his book and lecture and calls his story 'the Greatest Individual Achievement of the War'. The tell: a personal war record offered as a ticketed attraction, with superlatives ('Wildest Tales of Fiction, Fable, Fancy Outdone') standing in for any account of what the lecture contains.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Testimonial Glittering generalities

Date: 1918
Period: First World War
Made by: Lee Keedick lecture management, New York (per the sheet's text)
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: Corporation
Regime: Wilson Administration
Leader: Woodrow Wilson
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Persuade or win support
Themes: War and the military, Media and information
Event: World War I
Regime: Wilson administration
Leader: Woodrow Wilson
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 4 (U.S. Food Administration), World War I Posters (NAID 512439), retrieved October 3, 2026
Rights: NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Lee Keedick lecture management, New York (per the sheet's text). National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-10.

Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

Author of
"Outwitting the Hun"

READ HIS BOOK-
HEAR HIS LECTURE!

The Wildest Tales of
Fiction, Fable and
Fancy Outdone in
Real Life

LIEUT. O'BRIEN HAS [visible text cuts off here; NARA's title continues:] To Credit The Greatest Individual Achievement Of the War. Under the Exclusive Management of Lee Keedick, 437 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Manager of World's Most Celebrated Lecturers.

The text after 'LIEUT. O'BRIEN HAS' is taken from NARA's title because the lower part of the sheet is not in the scan.