Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: From the Preparedness Debate to the Evil Empire Speech: Hearts and Minds in Wartime Rhetoric / Martin J. Medhurst
1. The Great Debate: The United States and the World, 1936-1941 / Mary E. Stuckey
2. The Great Battle of Dialectics and Rhetoric: Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler, 1937-1939 / Randall L. Bytwerk
3. The US Home Front: Archetypal Opposition and Narrative Casting as Propaganda Strategies in World War II / James J. Kimble
4. Memories of Lincoln as Cold War Propaganda: Competing Scripts of American Greatness / Shawn J. Parry-Giles and David S. Kaufer
5. Dean Acheson's May 1947 Delta Council Speech: Rhetorical Evolution from the Truman Doctrine to the Marshall Plan / Denise M. Bostdorff
6. American Gullibility: The Route to the December Panic of 1950 / Robert P. Newman
7. The Logic and Rhetoric of Power: George F. Kennan, Paul H. Nitze, and Planning for Cold War / Ned O’Gorman
8. The Rhetorical Antecedents to Vietnam, 1945-1965 / Gregory A. Olson, George N. Dionisopoulos, and Steven R. Goldzwig
9. In Pursuit of Peace: John F. Kennedy, June 1963 / John M. Murphy
10. Reagan and the Evil Empire / Robert C. Rowland and John M. Jones
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