W. D. Stevens/Library of Congress. In 1917, on the brink of the U.S. entry into the Great War, a man named George Creel wrote a letter to President Woodrow Wilson. Creel was a journalist who had ...

To do that, he turned to George Creel, who headed up the Committee on Public Information, and launched a massive propaganda campaign to sell the war. Filmmaker Amanda Pollak tells Creel’s story.

14). Ditched by George Creel, whom he defeated in the Democratic primary, and cast adrift by the Roosevelt Administration, Nominee Sinclair could draw little encouragement from a belated speech by ...