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Dimaggio Anthony R. <1980-> |
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Selling war, selling hope : presidential rhetoric, the news media, and U.S. foreign policy since 9/11 / / Anthony R. DiMaggio |
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Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (433 p.) |
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Mass media and international relations - United States |
Communication in politics - United States |
Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States |
Political oratory - United States |
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 - Public opinion |
Arab Spring, 2010- - Public opinion |
Public opinion - United States |
Electronic books. |
United States Foreign relations 2001-2009 |
United States Foreign relations 2009- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Presidential Rhetoric from September 11 to the Arab Spring; Scholarly Contributions; Previous Scholarship; Casualties; Expected Success; Partisanship and Elite Cues; Perceived Immorality; Outline; Chapter 1: The Rhetoric of Fear and Hope in Afghanistan; Chapter 2: Selling the Iraq War; Chapter 3: Failure: The Iraq War and Declining Influence of Presidential Rhetoric; Chapter 4: An Iranian Threat? Recycling the Rhetoric of Fear and Hope; Chapter 5: From Fear to Democracy: Presidential Rhetoric in the Arab Spring |
Chapter 6: Losing Control: Obama's Rhetoric on Benghazi and SyriaResearch Methods; Chapter 1: The Rhetoric of Fear and Hope in Afghanistan; The Shock of September 11; Making the Case for War; |
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Journalists Embrace the War on Terror; Public Opinion; Conclusions for the 2001 Afghan Conflict; Out of Control: Afghanistan in 2009; Growing Antiwar Sentiment; Obama's Escalation and the Evolution of Dissent; 2008 Election Rhetoric; The December Surge; Obama's Speech at West Point Military Academy; Postsurge Rhetoric; Challenges to the Surge; Undermining the War; Editorializing for War |
Amplifying Officials, Marginalizing DissentSelling the Surge; Conclusions; Chapter 2: Selling the Iraq War; The War with Iraq; Critical Assessments of Bush's Rhetoric; Chemical and Biological Weapons; No Evidence of Nuclear Weapons; Fictitious Ties to Al Qaeda; Presidential Propaganda; Media and Public Support for War; Pro-War Framing in Elite Media; Enthusiasm for War; Cautiously Beating the Drums for War; Pro-War Reporting; Defining Objectivity; Media Effects of Pro-War Messages; Public Opinion; Setting the Agenda; Media Independence?; Concluding Lessons |
Chapter 3: Failure: The Iraq War and the Declining Influence of Presidential RhetoricWhy Do Americans Oppose War?; Moral Opposition to War; The 'Vietnam Syndrome'; Shifting Opinions; The Origins of Dissent: Critical Information and the Media; Growing Dissent; Failing to Sell War; Capturing Saddam Hussein; The Weapons of Mass Destruction Fiasco; The Abu Ghraib Scandal; Elections in Iraq; Guantanamo Bay; 2,000 Soldiers Dead; Civil War; The Surge; Explaining Opposition to War; Defining Immorality; Common Moral Objections; Secondary Objections; Partisanship, Elite Theory, and Democratic Theory |
Concluding LessonsChapter 4: An Iranian Threat? Recycling the Rhetoric of Fear and Hope; A Background to U.S.-Iranian Hostilities; Bush and Iran; Obama's Conflict; Challenging Presidential Rhetoric; Reporting on Iran; Iran during the Bush Years; Iran in the Age of Obama; Effects of Elite Discourse on Public Opinion; Experimental Evidence of Framing Effects on Iran; A Closer Examination of Experimental Findings; Concluding Lessons; Chapter 5: From Fear to Democracy: Presidential Rhetoric in the Arab Spring |
From Fear to Democracy: Presidential Rhetoric from the 'War on Terror' to the Arab Spring |
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