Critical reflections on the Cold War : linking rhetoric and history / edited by Martin J. Medhurst and H.W. Brands.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Medhurst, Martin J.

Brands, H. W.

Series:

Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 2.

Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

United States.

International relations.

Cold War.

United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.

Soviet Union.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.

Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Rhetoric.

Rhetoric--Political aspects.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 281 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2000]

Contents:

Introduction. The rhetorical construction of history / Martin J. Medhurst

Myth and reality: America's rhetorical Cold War / Norman A. Graebner

The creation of memory and myth: Stalin's 1946 election speech and the Soviet threat / Frank Costigliola

NSC (National insecurity) 68: Nitze's second hallucination / Robert P. Newman

Militarizing America's propaganda program, 1945-55 / Shawn J. Parry-Giles

The science of Cold War strategy: propaganda and public opinion in the Eisenhower administration's "war of words" / J. Michael Hogan

Liberals all! politics and rhetoric in Cold War America / H.W. Brands

The rhetoric of dissent: J. William Fulbright, Vietnam, and the crisis of international liberalism / Randall Bennett Woods

The Strategic Defense Initiative and the technological sublime: fear, science, and the Cold War / Rachel L. Holloway

"By helping others, we help ourselves": the Cold War rhetoric of American foreign policy / Robert J. McMahon

A new democratic world order? / Robert L. Ivie

Afterword. Rhetorical perspectives on the Cold War.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0890969434

OCLC:

43323697