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Abstract of "The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945/1955" by Shawn J. Parry-Giles

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Shawn J. Parry-Giles, The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945/1955 (New York: Praeger Publishers, 2001).

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Parry-Giles challenges the scholarly assumption that the rhetorical presidency refers to presidential messages delivered from the bully pulpit only. By examining early Cold War discourse, she demonstrates how Presidents Truman and Eisenhower transformed the U.S. propaganda program into an executive tool reliant on presidential surrogates in the promulgation of a covert and monolithic Cold War ideology.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. -- John Boyes

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