World War II and the Cold War

MARTIN J. MEDHURST is Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Communication and Professor of Political Science at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

• 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 Bibliography About the Authors Index