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Critical reflections on the Cold War : linking rhetoric and history

Title
Critical reflections on the Cold War : linking rhetoric and history / edited by Martin J. Medhurst and H.W. Brands.
Publication
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Medhurst, Martin J.
  • Brands, H. W.
Description
ix, 281 p.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 2
Subject
  • Cold War
  • Rhetoric > Political aspects > History > United States > 20th century
  • United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1989
  • United States > Foreign relations > Soviet Union
  • Soviet Union > Foreign relations > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
ILH 01-4815
ISBN
0890969434 (alk. paper)
LCCN
00021236
OCLC
43323697
Title
Critical reflections on the Cold War : linking rhetoric and history / edited by Martin J. Medhurst and H.W. Brands.
Imprint
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2000.
Edition
1st ed.
Series
Presidential rhetoric series ; no. 2
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Medhurst, Martin J.
Brands, H. W.
Research Call Number
ILH 01-4815
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