Democracy in Exile - Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual

Daniel Bessner is the Anne H. H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Assistant Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.

List of contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Masses and Marxism in Weimar Germany

2. The Social Role of the Intellectual Exile

3. Public Opinion, Propaganda, and Democracy in Crisis

4. Psychological Warfare in Theory and Practice

5. The Making of a Defense Intellectual

6. The Adviser

7. The Institution Builder

8. Social Science and Its Discontents

Conclusion

Abbreviations

Archival and Source Abbreviations

Notes

Archives Cited

Index

About the author

Daniel Bessner

Summary

Anyone interested in the history of U.S. foreign relations, Cold War history, and twentieth century intellectual history will find this impressive biography of Hans Speier, one of the most influential figures in American defense circles of the twentieth century, a must-read.In Democracy in Exile, Daniel Bessner shows how the experience of the...

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Bessner, Daniel (Assistant Professor Bessner
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9780801453038
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-5303-8
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: United States in the World; United States in the World
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous