One should not underestimate the power of persuasion by wel… - Newton Lee

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One should not underestimate the power of persuasion by well-crafted propaganda films. D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation in 1915 helped to resurrect Ku Klux Klan in Georgia; and Leni Riefenstahl's award-winning Triumph of the Will in 1935 helped fuel the rise of Nazism in Germany.

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Newton Lee is a computer scientist who is an author and administrator in the field of education and technology commercialization.

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