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Eisenhower's war of words : rhetoric and leadership

Author: Martin J Medhurst
Publisher: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1994.
Series: Rhetoric and public affairs series.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Eisenhower's war of words.
East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1994
(OCoLC)624339813
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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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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