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Americanists have long written about information, culture, and U.S. diplomacy.1 And with good reason: from George Creel's Committee on Public Information to the Good Neighbor Policy, from the Congress for Cultural Freedom to the National Endowment for Democracy, the U.S. state and its various private affiliates or "fronts" have provided scholars with ample material.2 The end of the cold war and the subsequent downsizing of U.S. public diplomacy seemed to augur an end to this trend, but the Bush administration's largely ham-fisted approach to international relations had the inadvertent effect of provoking new academic and lay interest in these issues. [...] Syracuse University professor Nancy Snow has engaged with the challenge of propaganda in two well-known books and currently blogs on public diplomacy for the Huffington Post.4 Linked through their official or unofficial advisory capacities to various arms of the state, these figures and their confreres-Joseph Nye, Martha Bayles, John Brown, Cynthia Schneider, and Richard Arndt-have proved influential in setting the public terms of the debate about U.S. propaganda during the Bush and the Obama eras.5 Their work tends to promote three main objectives: one, to teach policymakers and American citizens that the U.S. history of public diplomacy offers us valuable lessons for the present; two, to insist that effective public diplomacy can never take a unilateral form; and three, to emphasize that public diplomacy should not be seen as a relatively insignificant supplement to foreign policy but instead be understood as integral to the nation's relations with the rest of the globe.