WAR AND THE INTELLECTUALS

War and the intellectuals

War and the intellectuals

Public opinion never had a total consensus for American's participation in the World War 1. Although Woodrow Wilson, the then US president, formed a Committee on Public Information (CPI) to moderate the anti-war propaganda, imminent scholars like Randolph Bourne regarded it as coercion to American nation for supporting the war. Led by George Creel, a former urban reformer and muckraking journalist, it embodied progressivism's love affair with the fact. Despite George Creel's assertions that the CIP was tried by a strong truth, many of its members later admitted to be quite willing ...