A righteous smokescreen: Postwar America and the politics of cultural globalization.

Lebovic vehemently opposes the idea that the United States indeed contributed to the free flow of information for liberal internationalism in the postwar period and spends the book aiming to debunk this myth. Keywords: Cultural diplomacy; education diplomacy; postwar; U.S. national identity EN Cultural diplomacy education diplomacy postwar U.S. national identity 787 788 2 03/27/23 20230401 NES 230401 Sam Lebovic's I A Righteous Smokescreen: Postwar America and the Politics of Cultural Globalization i provides a rigorous and detailed narrative of the United States' post-World War II efforts to maintain their hegemonic position in the world order, not through larger questions of geopolitics and international finance, but rather through mundane, quotidian policies and programmes such as visa and passport regulations, educational exchange programmes and land agreements for embassies. Each of the book's five chapters explores a unique aspect of the United States' effort to establish America's postwar identity through information exchange. [Extracted from the article]