Total Cold War Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad

Name: Total Cold War Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad
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ISBN: 9780700615902

ISBN-10: 0700615903

ISBN-13: 9780700615902

Edition: 2006

Authors: Kenneth Osgood

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When President Dwight Eisenhower spoke of waging "total cold war," he was proposing nothing less than a global, all-embracing battle for hearts and minds. His wide-ranging propaganda campaign challenged world communism at every turn and left a lasting mark on the American psyche. Kenneth Osgood now chronicles the secret psychological warfare programs America developed at the height of the Cold War. These programs--which were often indistinguishable from CIA convert operations--went well being campaigns to foment unrest behind the Iron Curtain. The effort was global: U.S. propaganda campaigns targeted virtually every country in the free world. Total Cold War also shows that Eisenhower waged…

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List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 2/23/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 520
Size: 7.20" wide x 8.96" long x 1.33" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Kenneth Osgood, associate professor of history at Florida Atlantic University, is the author of "Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad", winner of the Herbert Hoover Book Award.



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



Theory and Practice



Regimenting the Public Mind: The Communications Revolution and the Age of Total War



A New Type of Cold War: Eisenhower and the Challenge of Coexistence



Camouflaged Propaganda: Psychological Warfare's New Look



Secret Empire: Psychological Operations and the Worldwide Anticommunist Crusade



Global Themes and Campaigns



Spinning the Friendly Atom: The Atoms for Peace Campaign



The Illusory Spirit of Geneva: Propaganda and the New Diplomacy



Every Man an Ambassador: Cultural Propaganda and the People-to-People Campaign



Facts About the United States: The USIA Presents Everyday Life in America



A New "Magna Carta" of Freedom: The Ideological Warfare Campaign



The Power of Symbols: Psychological Strategy and the Space Race


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index