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Summary:

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 government's selling activities from all angles. He looks at the halting and sometimes chaotic efforts of Harry Truman and Dean Acheson, Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. He examines the relationships that they and their subordinates developed with a host of other institutions, from Congress and the press to Hollywood and labor. And he assesses the complex and fraught interactions between the military and war correspondents in the battlefield theater itself. -- Publisher description.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part one: The war against North Korea, June-November 1950. Keeping the home front cool
• "Censorship is abhorrent to General MacArthur"
• Mobilizing for a police action
• On the offensive
• Part two: The war against China, November 1950-July 1951. An entirely new war
• Dealing with the "disaster school of journalism"
• Mobilizing with the utmost speed
• Why Korea?
• The MacArthur controversy
• Part three: The stalemate war, July 1951-July 1953. Interminable truce talks
• Steady improvements
• The advent of Eisenhower
• Conclusion.

Author/Creator:

Casey, Steven , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Selling the Korean War: propaganda, politics, and public opinion in the United States, 1950-1953 [by Casey, S.]

Subjects:

Korean War, 1950-1953 — United States

United States — Politics and government — 1945-1953

United States — Foreign relations — 1945-1953

National security — United States

Korean War (1950-1953)

1945-1953

Diplomatic relations

National security

Politics and government

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-458) and index.

Physical Description:

xi, 476 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Physical Characteristics:

map; illustration

Call Numbers:

DS919 .C35 2010

ISBNs:

9780199738991 (pbk., alk. paper)
0199738998 (pbk., alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2007028884

OCLC Numbers:

671373934