• Acknowledgments


• Introduction: Printscapes and Propaganda


• I. State Secrets: Ben Franklin and WikiLeaks


• II. Memes, Plagiarism, and Revolutionary Drama


• III. From East India to the Boston Tea Party: Propaganda at the Extremes


• IV. Epistolary Propaganda: Counterfeits, Stolen Letters, and Transatlantic Revolutions


• V. Aftermath: The Poetry of the Post-Revolution


• Coda


• Bibliography

Russ Castronovo is is Dorothy Draheim Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era; Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States; and Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom.

Propaganda 1776 reframes the culture of the U.S. Revolution and early Republic, revealing it to be rooted in a vast network of propaganda.