As if propaganda was ever out of style, graphic designers comment on the value of a good, eye-catching (or mind-catching) piece of information meant to propagate support for an idea or person (H/T A. Sullivan).  Meanwhile, someone else is looking to make a few bucks describing one of the many domestic propaganda machines. 

Recommended Books on the subject you may not have read (not in any particular order):

• War Posters: Weapons of Mass Communication
• Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion: New and Classic Essays
• Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda
• Premises for Propaganda: The United States Information Agency’s Operating Assumptions in the Cold War (see A.L.’s comments on this find)
• Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign against American “Neutrality” in World War II
• War of the Black Heavens
• Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy

Less recommended are the following containing interesting discussions and observations on the media’s role in (mostly domestic) persuasion and influence:

• The Media and the War on Terrorism 
• Weapons of Mass Persuasion: Marketing the War Against Iraq
• Wary Partners: Diplomats and the Media

Promoted from the comments is a recommendation from Tim Stevens of Ubiwar:

• Politics and Propaganda: Weapons of Mass Seduction

And an example of how U.S. domestic policy can change due to the global information environment:

• Cold War Civil Rights (book review here)