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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953626503321

Autore

Parry-Giles Shawn J. <1960->

Titolo

The rhetorical presidency, propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945-1955 / / Shawn J. Parry-Giles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2002

ISBN

9780313075391

0313075395

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Collana

Praeger series in presidential studies , 1062-0931

Disciplina

327.1/4/097309045

Soggetti

Presidents - United States - Language - History - 20th century

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

Propaganda, American - History - 20th century

Cold War

United States Politics and government 1945-1989

United States Foreign relations 1945-1953

United States Foreign relations 1953-1961

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-217) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Part I: The Period of Propaganda and News -- 1 The Truman Administration's Legalization of Peacetime -- Propaganda -- 2 The Journalistic Paradigm: U.S. Domestic and International -- Propaganda, 1947-1949 -- Part I: The Period of Militarization -- 3 Creating a Militarized Propaganda Structure Through the -- CIA, PSB, and Campaign of Truth -- 4 Militarized Propaganda and the Campaign of Truth, -- 1950-1952 -- Part II: The Period of Institutionalization and Psychological -- Strategy -- 5 McCarthyism and the Rise and Fall of Congressional -- Involvement in Propaganda Operations -- 6 Propaganda as a Presidential Tool in the Eisenhower White -- House -- 7 The Rhetorical Presidency and the Eisenhower -- Administration, 1953-1955 -- Conclusion: Expanding the-Rhetorical Presidency---- - -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Both Truman and Eisenhower combined bully pulpit activity with presidentially directed messages voiced by surrogates whose words were as orchestrated by the administration as those delivered by the



presidents themselves. A Review of the private strategizing sessions concerning propaganda activity and the actual propaganda disseminated by the Truman and Eisenhower administrations reveals how they both militarized propaganda operations, allowing the president of the United States to serve as the commander-in-chief of propaganda activity. As the presidents minimized congressional control over propaganda operations, they institutionalized propaganda as a presidential tool, expanded the means by which they and their successors could perform the rhetorical presidency, and increased presidential power over the country's Cold War message, naturalizing the Cold War ideology that resonates yet today. Of particular interest to scholars and students of political communication, the modern presidency, and Cold War history.