Selling War in a Media Age: The Presidency and Public Opinion in the American Century

by Andrew K. Frank and Kenneth Osgood

Book Overview

"Asks whether it is ever possible for a president to nudge the nation toward war without lying. And if he does, is it sometimes all right? Most of these authors would vote no."-- Columbia Journalism Review "It was a pleasant and poignant surprise to find an afterword written by the late David Halberstam, one of the best reporter-historians of the last century. It may be his last major piece of writing. . . . It is an appropriate way to wind up the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813038006
• ISBN13: 9780813038001
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"