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Title Selling war in a media age : the presidency and public opinion in the American century / edited by Kenneth Osgood and Andrew K. Frank ; afterword by David Halberstam
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2010
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 278 pages)
Series The Alan B. Larkin series on the American presidency
Alan B. Larkin series on the American presidency.
Contents Hail to the salesman in chief : domestic politics, foreign policy, and the presidency / Andrew L. Johns -- Imperial tutor : William McKinley, the War of 1898, and the New Empire, 1898-1902 / George C. Herring -- War and the health of the state : the U.S. government and the communications revolution during World War I / Emily S. Rosenberg -- Selling different kinds of war : Franklin D. Roosevelt and American public opinion during World War II / Mark A. Stoler -- Cementing and dissolving consensus : presidential rhetoric during the Cold War, 1947-1969 / Robert D. Schulzinger -- Hard sell : the Korean War / Marilyn B. Young -- Eisenhower's dilemma : talking peace and waging Cold War / Kenneth Osgood -- "We need to get a better story to the American people" : LBJ, the Progress Campaign, and the Vietnam War on television / Chester Pach -- Selling star wars : Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative / Paul S. Boyer -- The ministry of fear : selling the Gulf wars / Lloyd Gardner -- War, democracy, and the state / Robert J. McMahon -- Worm's-eye view / David Halberstam
Summary George W. Bush's 'Mission Accomplished' banner in 2003 and the misleading linkages of Saddam Hussein to the 9/11 terrorist attacks awoke many Americans to the techniques used by the White House to put the country on a war footing. Yet Bush was simply following in the footsteps of his predecessors, as the essays in this standout volume reveal in illuminating detail
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Presidents -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Presidents -- United States -- Public opinion -- History -- 20th century
Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Mass media and war -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Politics and war -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Communication in politics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Political leadership -- United States -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
HISTORY -- United States -- General.
Communication in politics
Mass media and war
Political leadership
Politics and war
Presidents
Presidents -- Public opinion
Public opinion
Rhetoric -- Political aspects
SUBJECT United States -- History, Military -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140341
Subject United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Military history
Form Electronic book
Author Osgood, Kenneth Alan, 1971-
Frank, Andrew, 1970-
UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online). MaRLi Backlist Collection
ISBN 081303874X
9780813038742
9780813045849
0813045843
9780813040882
0813040884