Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950-1953

by Steven Casey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195306929
• ISBN13: 9780195306927
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"