The recivilized savage: Harry Truman and the victory of the Good War -- The mobile savage: Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and stalemate in Korea -- Erasing the savage: Richard Nixon, the architecture of peace, and the eternal Vietnam -- The disembodied savage: Barack Obama and the perpetuity of national violence -- War, the globalization of violence, and the sovereign power of the present.
Summary:
"The book explores how postwar US presidents used communication strategies to craft new roles or personas for presidential leadership that amplified the necessity of American power and inserted American leadership into precarious situations that ensured national engagement in the next conflict"-- Provided by publisher.
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