Radio Goes to War is the first comprehensive and indepth look at the role of domestic radio in the United States during the Second World War As this study convincingly demonstrates, radio broadcasting played a crucial role both in government propaganda and within the context of the broader cultural and political transformations of wartime America Gerd Hortens absorbing narrative argues that no medium merged entertainment, propaganda, and advertising more effectively than radio As a result, Americas wartime radio propaganda emphasized an increasingly corporate and privatized vision of Americas future, with important repercussions for the war years and the postwar era Examining radio news programs, government propaganda shows, advertising, soap operas, and comedy programs, Horten situates radio wartime propaganda in the key shift from a Depressionera resentment of big business to the consumer and corporate culture of the postwar period