The Truth Is Our Weapon: The Rhetorical Diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles

by Chris Tudda

Book Overview

President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, deployed a tactic Chris Tudda calls "rhetorical diplomacy"-- sounding a belligerent note of anti-Communism in speeches, addresses, press conferences, and private meetings with allies and with Moscow. Yet all the while, Tudda discloses, the two were confidentially committed to a contradictory course--the establishment of a strong system of collective security in Western...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807131407
• ISBN13: 9780807131404
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"