Radio Free Europe's Crusade for Freedom

<p> From 1950 to 1960 millions of Americans participated in Radio Free Europe's Crusade for Freedom. They signed Freedom Scrolls and Freedom Grams attended Crusader meetings marched in parades launched leaflet-carrying balloons and donated Truth Dollars in support of the American effort to broadcast news and other programming to the peoples of communist-governed European countries. The Crusade for Freedom proved to be a powerful tool of the state-private network's anti-communist agenda. This book takes an in-depth look at the Crusade for Freedom revealing how its unmatched pageantry of patriotism led to the creation of a dynamic movement involving not only the government but also private industry mass media academia religious leaders and average Americans.</p>