Introduction: Image and the Origins of U.S. Public Diplomacy -- "Down with Imperialism" : The Latin American Origins of U.S. Cultural Diplomacy -- "The Drift of History" : War, Culture, and Hegemony -- "Projecting America" : Propaganda as Foreign Policy at the Office of War Information -- "Foreign Relations, Domestic Affairs" : The Consolidation of U.S. Public Diplomacy -- "The Flat White Light" : Revolutionary Nationalism in Asia and Beyond -- "An Unfavorable Projection of American Unity" : McCarthyism and Public Diplomacy -- Epilogue: The Creation of the USIA and the Fate of U.S. Public Diplomacy