Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The rhetorical construction of history / Martin J. Medhurst
  • Myth and reality: America's rhetorical Cold War / Norman A. Graebner
  • The creation of memory and myth: Stalin's 1946 election speech and the Soviet threat / Frank Costigliola
  • NSC (National insecurity) 68: Nitze's second hallucination / Robert P. Newman
  • Militarizing America's propaganda program, 1945-55 / Shawn J. Parry-Giles
  • The science of Cold War strategy: propaganda and public opinion in the Eisenhower administration's "war of words" / J. Michael Hogan
  • Liberals all! politics and rhetoric in Cold War America / H.W. Brands
  • The rhetoric of dissent: J. William Fulbright, Vietnam, and the crisis of international liberalism / Randall Bennett Woods
  • The Strategic Defense Initiative and the technological sublime: fear, science, and the Cold War / Rachel L. Holloway
  • "By helping others, we help ourselves": the Cold War rhetoric of American foreign policy / Robert J. McMahon
  • A new democratic world order? / Robert L. Ivie
  • Afterword. Rhetorical perspectives on the Cold War.