From World War II to the war in Iraq, periods of international
conflict seem like unique moments in U.S. political history--but
when it comes to public opinion, they are not. To make this
groundbreaking revelation, "In Time of War" explodes conventional
wisdom about American reactions to World War II, as well as the
more recent conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf, Afghanistan, and
Iraq. Adam Berinsky argues that public response to these crises has
been shaped less by their defining characteristics--such as what
they cost in lives and resources--than by the same political
interests and group affiliations that influence our ideas about
domestic issues.
With the help of World War II-era survey data that had gone
virtually untouched for the past sixty years, Berinsky begins by
disproving the myth of "the good war" that Americans all fell in
line to support after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The attack,
he reveals, did not significantly alter public opinion but merely
punctuated interventionist sentiment that had already risen in
response to the ways that political leaders at home had framed the
fighting abroad. Weaving his findings into the first general theory
of the factors that shape American wartime opinion, Berinsky also
sheds new light on our reactions to other crises. He shows, for
example, that our attitudes toward restricted civil liberties
during Vietnam and after 9/11 stemmed from the same kinds of
judgments we make during times of peace.
With Iraq and Afghanistan now competing for attention with
urgent issues within the United States, "In Time of War "offers a
timely reminder of the full extent to which foreign and domestic
politics profoundly influence--and ultimately illuminate--each
other.
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