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Selling the Korean War - Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950-1953 (Hardcover)
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Selling the Korean War - Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950-1953 (Hardcover)
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The Korean War occupies a unique place in American history and
foreign policy. Because it followed closely after World War II and
ushered in a new era of military action as the first hot conflict
of the cold war, the Korean War was marketed as an entirely new
kind of military campaign. But how were the war-weary American
people convinced that the limited objectives of the Korean War were
of paramount importance to the nation?
In this ground-breaking book, Steven Casey deftly analyzes the
Truman and Eisenhower administrations' determined efforts to shape
public discourse about the war, influence media coverage of the
conflict, and gain political support for their overall approach to
waging the Cold War, while also trying to avoid inciting a hysteria
that would make it difficult to localize the conflict. The first
in-depth study of Truman's and Eisenhower's efforts to garner and
sustain support for the war, Selling the Korean War weaves a lucid
tale of the interactions between the president and government
officials, journalists, and public opinion that ultimately produced
the twentieth century concept of limited war.
It has been popularly thought that the public is instinctively
hostile towards any war fought for less than total victory, but
Casey shows that limited wars place major constraints on what the
government can say and do. He also demonstrates how the Truman
administration skillfully rededicated and redefined the war as it
dragged on with mounting casualties. Using a rich array of
previously untapped archival resources--including official
government documents, and the papers of leading congressmen,
newspaper editors, and war correspondents--Casey's work promises to
bethe definitive word on the relationship between presidents and
public opinion during America's "forgotten war."
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