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Kenneth Osgood - Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad - 9780700615902 - V9780700615902
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Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad

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Description for Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad Paperback. Num Pages: 520 pages, 26 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3; JPS; JPVN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 31. Weight in Grams: 766.
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 covert operations—went well beyond campaigns to foment unrest behind the Iron Curtain. The effort was global: U.S. propaganda campaigns targeted virtually every country in the free world.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
520
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700615902
SKU
V9780700615902
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About Kenneth Osgood
Kenneth Osgood is assistant professor of history at Florida Atlantic University and winner of the Herbert Hoover Book Award.

Reviews for Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad
“Osgood has written probably the best book to date on any aspect of U.S. Cold War propaganda. Although it focuses on the Eisenhower administration, Osgood draws provocative conclusions that resonate well beyond the specific parameters of his study. . . . He makes a very strong case for the importance of propaganda not only to Eisenhowers foreign policy-making, but to ... Read more

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