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Title:

Selling war in a media age : the presidency and public opinion in the American century / edited by Kenneth Osgood and Andrew K. Frank ; afterword by David Halberstam.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xii, 278 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Presidents--United States--History--20th century.
Presidents--United States--History--History--20th century.
Rhetoric--History--United States--History--20th century.
Public opinion--United States--History--20th century.
Mass media and war--United States--History--20th century.
Politics and war--United States--History--20th century.
Communication in politics--United States--History--20th century.
Political leadership--United States--History--20th century.
United States--History, Military--20th century.

Other Authors:

Osgood, Kenneth Alan, 1971-
Frank, Andrew, 1970-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Hail to the salesman in chief : domestic politics, foreign policy, and the presidency / Andrew L. Johns -- Imperial tutor : William McKinley, the War of 1898, and the New Empire, 1898-1902 / George C. Herring -- War and the health of the state : the U.S. government and the communications revolution during World War I / Emily S. Rosenberg -- Selling different kinds of war : Franklin D. Roosevelt and American public opinion during World War II / Mark A. Stoler -- Cementing and dissolving consensus : presidential rhetoric during the Cold War, 1947-1969 / Robert D. Schulzinger -- Hard sell : the Korean War / Marilyn B. Young -- Eisenhower's dilemma : talking peace and waging Cold War / Kenneth Osgood -- "We need to get a better story to the American people" : LBJ, the Progress Campaign, and the Vietnam War on television / Chester Pach -- Selling star wars : Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative / Paul S. Boyer -- The ministry of fear : selling the Gulf wars / Lloyd Gardner -- War, democracy, and the state / Robert J. McMahon -- Worm's-eye view / David Halberstam.

Series:

The Alan B. Larkin series on the American presidency

ISBN:

0813034663 (alk. paper)
9780813034669 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)437299337

LCCN:

2010001918

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)