Sargent,P. What Makes Lives. 1940
Sargent, Porter. What Makes Lives. From "A Handbook of Private Schools,"
24th edition. Boston: self-published, 1940. 230 pages.
This item was reprinted by Dale Wharton, who found a microfilm copy
in the New York Public Library after an 18-month search. His interest was
sparked by a three-page quotation from Sargent in a 1947 book by George
Seldes. These pages recounted the repression of independent American
journalism by corporate interests, in particular by the House of Morgan.
Porter Sargent (1872-1951) was an eclectic scholar and educator who
published a survey of private schools beginning in 1914. He used the preface
to his "Handbook" to comment on topics of the day. Sargent was shaken by the
ease with which the U.S. became entangled in the first world war, and in
1940 saw the same thing happening again. (Before Pearl Harbor, isolationism
was a respectable opinion in America.) Moreover, some social critics were
tracking the emerging science of propaganda, and noticed how its techniques
were increasingly used by governments (in this case, the British-Morgan
nexus) to shape popular opinion. Sargent's interest began after Senator
Gerald Nye read portions of a book by Sidney Rogerson, "Propaganda in the
Next War," into the Congressional Record, "telling how Britain might seduce
the U.S. into the coming war against Germany.... Porter Sargent had 10,000
reprints made, [and] sent them, with a one-page mimeograph of his own
observations, to his mailing list of educators." (Time magazine, 1939-12-25)
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