Apocalypse Management - Eisenhower and the Discourse of National Insecurity

Zusatztext "Chernus challenges the reader by presenting a different, more negative view of Eisenhower that will serve as an antidote to the image of the wise, cautious, and benign man that historians have come to know." — Journal of American History Informationen zum Autor Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace (2002) and, most recently, of Monsters to Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin (2006). Klappentext "Apocalypse Management" explains Dwight Eisenhower's eight years of self-defeating cold war policies by analyzing the pattern of Eisenhower's private and public discourse, a pattern that still dominates U.S. foreign policy, keeping us in the same state of national insecurity that marked the Eisenhower era. Zusammenfassung Apocalypse Management explains Dwight Eisenhower's eight years of self-defeating cold war policies by analyzing the pattern of Eisenhower's private and public discourse, a pattern that still dominates U.S. foreign policy, keeping us in the same state of national insecurity that marked the Eisenhower era.

Product details

• Authors: IRA Chernus
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.02.2008
• EAN: 9780804758079
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5807-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Stanford Nuclear Age Series; Stanford Nuclear Age (Hardcove; Stanford Nuclear Age Series; Stanford Nuclear Age (Hardcove; Stanford Nuclear Age
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas