Selling the Korean War
Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950-1953
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 March 2008
- ISBN 9780195306927
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages488 pages
- Size 236x160x38 mm
- Weight 816 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 halftones 0
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Short description:
Korea was the first limited war the U.S. experienced in the contemporary period. In this book, Steven Casey explores how President Harry Truman tried to sell it to the American public.
MoreLong description:
How presidents spark and sustain support for wars remains an enduring and significant problem. Korea was the first limited war the U.S. experienced in the contemporary period - the first recent war fought for something less than total victory. In Selling the Korean War, Steven Casey explores how President Truman and then Eisenhower tried to sell it to the American public.
Based on a massive array of primary sources, Casey subtly explores the government's selling activities from all angles. He looks at the halting and sometimes chaotic efforts of Harry Truman and Dean Acheson, Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. He examines the relationships that they and their subordinates developed with a host of other institutions, from Congress and the press to Hollywood and labor. And he assesses the complex and fraught interactions between the military and war correspondents in the battlefield theater itself.
From high politics to bitter media spats, Casey guides the reader through the domestic debates of this messy, costly war. He highlights the actions and calculations of colorful figures, including Senators Robert Taft and Joseph McCarthy, and General Douglas MacArthur. He details how the culture and work routines of Congress and the media influenced political tactics and daily news stories. And he explores how different phases of the war threw up different problems - from the initial disasters in the summer of 1950 to the giddy prospects of victory in October 1950, from the massive defeats in the wake of China's massive intervention to the lengthy period of stalemate fighting in 1952 and 1953.
Steven Casey has drawn a masterly analysis of what is certain to become the standard work on its subject.... The whole study is, moreover, conveyed with real verve and at a cracking pace.... An exceptionally good book which does full justice to the complexity of the comestic politics of the Korean War and the rold of the media, official institutions, and politicians in shaping public opinion.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part One: The War against North Korea, June-November 1950
Keeping the Home Front Cool
Censorship is Abhorrent to General MacArthur
Mobilizing for a Police Action
On the Offensive
Part Two: The War against China, November 1950-July 1951
An Entirely New War
Dealing with the Disaster School of Journalism
Mobilizing with the Utmost Speed
Why Korea?
The MacArthur Controversy
Part Three: The Stalemate War, July 1951-July 1953
Interminable Truce Talks
Steady Improvements
The Advent of Eisenhower
Conclusion
