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Andrew Johnstone

@HistoryAndrew

Historian of the USA at the University of Leicester. Author of Spinning the World: The Public Relations Industry and American Foreign Relations (Cambridge 2025)

 Leicester, England
Joined March 2016
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Thank you very much to @NickCull for his generous review of my book Spinning the World in Diplomatic History doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhag048
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Very happy to see this roundtable on my book
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@HDiploJun 22
H-Diplo Roundtable XXVII-9 on Andrew Johnstone, _Spinning the World: The Public Relations Industry and American Foreign Relations_. Cambridge University Press, 2025. hdiplo.org/to/RT27-9
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I look forward to going to SHAFR by train
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There are history conferences—and then there are historic ones. SHAFR 2028 comes to The Hague, June 22–24. Hosted by the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies & Leiden University. We can’t wait to welcome you!
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Hardcover publication date in the US! Americans can finally be as impressed as this cat
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Spinning the World by Andrew Johnstone Reveals the PR industry's hidden hand of influence on American foreign relations in the twentieth century. 📚 cup.org/4fg93Is #diplomatichistory
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Official publication day!
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We've got some brand-new books from @cambridgeup on our shelves! 🙌📚 Including 'Spinning the World' by @HistoryAndrew which has been released today, examining the public relations industry's hidden hand of influence on American foreign relations. 🌎 @cambUP_History
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From a SHAFR conversation to a soon to be published book, @HistoryAndrew’s Spinning the World is an insightful examination of the PR industry and US foreign relations. @SHAFRhistorians #SHAFR2025 @cambUP_History
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All set up at #SHAFR2025. Stop by and say hello. @SHAFRhistorians @cambUP_History
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My book has a cover! Out this summer. See here for details, including the table of contents and some very generous blurbs: cambridge.org/gb/universityp…
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Spinning the World has a web page! More details on there to follow, which I will use as an excuse to repost this at future intervals cambridge.org/gb/universityp…
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Look forward to finding time to read this, which also appears to be available as a free download on @CornellPress 's webpage. I never met LaFeber, sadly. Many great monographs but The American Age was my go-to as an undergrad and beyond (the cracked spine tells its own story).
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News | Economics student Lauren Henry and History alumnus Nick Cummins will be hoping for glory in Paris as they compete as part of @TeamGB / @ParalympicsGB in the @Olympics and @Paralympics. ➡ le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/olym… #CitizensOfChange #Olympics2024 #Paralympics2024 #Paris2024
University of Leicester Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls ready to compete on the world stage | News...

University of Leicester Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls ready to compete on the world stage | News...

Student Lauren Henry and alumnus Nick Cummins are competing as part of TeamGB in the Olympics and Paralympics 2024

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Congratulations to all of our graduates, especially my special subject group. After a full year of listening to me go on about FDR, somehow they still wanted a picture together. Just a shame we couldn't get everyone.
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HyPIR at Leicester@HyPIRUoL18 Jul 2024
Congratulations to everyone who graduated today! 👏👏👏#LeicesterGrad
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Jimbo@jimbexperience29 Jun 2024
This might just be the best Q&A the @guardian magazine have ever done 😂
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RIP Donald Sutherland, whose superb performance as Mr X in JFK is how I introduce students to the debate over what Kennedy might have done in Vietnam. Just one of many outstanding performances in a glittering career
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Very happy to have signed a contract with @CambridgeUP for Spinning the World: The Public Relations Industry and American Foreign Relations. Thank you to @ccancellaro and some very careful manuscript reviewers (even reviewer #2). Hopefully out Summer 2025.
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A lovely collegiate evening launching three great books on content over a thousand years out of my wheelhouse
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A very special TRIPLE book launch complete with a festive fire (projection)
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U.S. Studies Online@BAASUSSO14 Dec 2023
#ConferenceReview @_bensidaway reviews "Pro and Anti-War Voices", a conference held @uniworchistory featuring research from @HistoryAndrew, @_jon_chandler, @JonesAledH, Kristin Brill, and Maddie Hale, Joseph Rix and Dr Wendy Toon of @worcester_uni. usso.uk/2023/12/conference-r…
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