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This book examines the relationship between sport and religion with
regard to twenty-first century topics such as race, fandom,
education, and culture. The contributors provide new insights into
the people, movements, and events that define the complex
relationship between sport and religion around the world. A
wonderful addition to any academic course on religion, sports,
ethics, or culture as a whole.
This book examines the relationship between sport and religion with
regard to twenty-first century topics such as race, fandom,
education, and culture. The contributors provide new insights into
the people, movements, and events that define the complex
relationship between sport and religion around the world. A
wonderful addition to any academic course on religion, sports,
ethics, or culture as a whole.
In this absorbing book, Bruce J. Evensen analyzes the role of the
mass media, public opinion, and the Zionists in the evolution of
America's Palestine policy during the Truman administration. Taking
issue with recent revisionist historians who argue that Truman had
little difficulty manipulating public opinion, Evensen claims that
the press and an aroused public opinion successfully frustrated the
President's course on Palestine and elicited his support of the
United Nations' partition of Jewish and Arab states and Truman's
early recognition of Israel. Evensen emphasizes the development of
a conventional wisdom that placed the Middle East at the center of
U.S. strategic planning and saw limiting Soviet penetration as a
primary goal. Within this context, he shows a divided Truman
administration, which was uncertain how to act on the Jewish state.
Reluctantly, the administration initially supported the UN's vote
to partition the region; then, as Palestine erupted into violence,
it attempted to abandon this decision. Interpreting the President's
action as a gutless appeasement of the Arabs and an indication of
his fear of the Soviets, the media, reflecting the public's Cold
War fears, confronted the administration's policy in the Middle
East and frustrated the President's effort to abandon the partition
scheme. The media's role in reflecting and shaping competing
visions of reality, which became the conventional wisdom of policy
making, is a key part of this study.
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