Resowing the Seeds of War : Presidential Peace Rhetoric since 1945 /
"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&...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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East Lansing
Michigan State University Press
[2021]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "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" 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. |
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Notas: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (365 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781609176594 |