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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Eisenhower's war of words. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1994 (OCoLC)624339813 |
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| Named Person: | Dwight D Eisenhower; Dwight D Eisenhower; Dwight D Eisenhower |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Martin J Medhurst |
| ISBN: | 0870133403 9780870133404 |
| OCLC Number: | 29519512 |
| Description: | 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Eisenhower as cold warrior / Robert L. Ivie -- Dulles and Eisenhower on "massive retaliation" / Mark J. Schaefermeyer -- "Keeping the faith" : Eisenhower introduces the hydrogen age / Rachel L. Holloway -- The case of Eisenhower versus McCarthyism / Thomas Rosteck -- Eisenhower and the Indochina problem / Gregory A. Olson -- Eisenhower and open skies : a case study in "psychological warfare" / J. Michael Hogan -- The rhetoric of distancing : Eisenhower's Suez crisis speech, 31 October 1956 / Richard B. Gregg -- Crisis at Little Rock : Eisenhower, history, and mediated political realities / Steven R. Goldzwig and George Dionisopoulos -- Eisenhower and Sputnik : the irony of failed leadership / David Henry -- The missed opportunity : the U-2 and Paris / Lawrence W. Haapanen -- New light on Eisenhower's farewell address / Charles J.G. Griffin -- Eisenhower's rhetorical leadership : an interpretation / Martin J. Medhurst. |
| Series Title: | Rhetoric and public affairs series. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Martin J. Medhurst. |
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Abstract:
Eisenhower's War of Words: Rhetoric and Leadership paints a revisionist portrait of Dwight Eisenhower as a strategic communicator who was highly involved in the series of crises that characterized his administrations. As a consummate cold warrior, Eisenhower understood that words, images, perceptions, and the shaping of attitudes was central to the ongoing battle with the Soviet Union. He used rhetoric - actions and messages intentionally designed to persuade - to achieve many of his goals. To Ike, rhetoric were the central weapon for waging - and winning - the Cold War. Understood as a strategic art of selection, arrangement, nuance, timing, and audience adaptation, rhetoric became, for Eisenhower, the preferred means of conflict resolution. Examining both foreign and domestic crises, Eisenhower's War of Words reveals a chief executive who was always thinking, planning, and looking for the opportune moment to strike. Individual chapters are devoted to the crises concerning Vietnam, McCarthyism, the H-Bomb, massive retaliation, Open Skies, Suez, Sputnik, Little Rock, the U-2 Affair, and the military-industrial complex. Eisenhower's rhetorical leadership saw America through a decade that was anything but tranquil. This book examines one of the primary means by which he accomplished that goal.
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- Eisenhower, Dwight D. -- (Dwight David), -- 1890-1969 -- Oratory.
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. -- (Dwight David), -- 1890-1969 -- Literary art.
- Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Communication in politics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1953-1961.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961.
- English language -- United States -- Rhetoric.
- Cold War.
- Eisenhower, Dwight D.
- Rhetorik
- Ost-West-Konflikt
