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Why America Fights : Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq

ISBN: 9780199753963 | 0199753962
Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/9/2011

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
On the evening of September 11, 2002, with the Statue of Liberty shimmering in the background, television cameras captured President George W. Bush as he advocated the charge for war against Iraq. This carefully staged performance, writes Susan Brewer, was the culmination of a long tradition of sophisticated wartime propaganda in America. In Why America Fights , Brewer offers a fascinating history of how successive presidents have conducted what Donald Rumsfeld calls "perception management," from McKinley's war in the Philippines to Operation I... MORE
Introduction
The "Divine Mission"War in the Philippines
Crusade for DemocracyOver There in the Great War
The Good WarFighting for a Better Life in World War II
War in Korea"The Front Line in the Struggle between Freedom and Tyranny"
Why VietnamMore Questions than Answers
Operation Iraqi FreedomWar and Infoganda
Conclusion
Not... MORE
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Susan A. Brewer is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. She is the author of To Win the Peace: British Propaganda in the United States during World War II.


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