Selling war, selling hope : presidential rhetoric, the news media, and U.S. foreign policy since 9/11 / / Anthony R. DiMaggio

• Autore: Dimaggio Anthony R. <1980->
• Pubblicazione: Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (433 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.73009/0511
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: United States Foreign relations 2001-2009; United States Foreign relations 2009-
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Selling war, selling hope
• ISBN: 1-4384-5797-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461568403321
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