Spirits of the Cold War: Contesting Worldviews in the by Ned O'Gorman
By Ned O'Gorman
In spring of 1953, newly elected President Eisenhower sat down along with his employees to debate the nation of yank procedure within the chilly conflict. the USA, he insisted, wanted a brand new method of an pressing scenario. From this assembly emerged Eisenhower’s groups of “bright younger fellows,” charged with constructing competing guidelines, every one of which might come to form international politics. In Spirits of the chilly War, Ned O’Gorman argues that the early chilly warfare used to be a crucible not just for contesting political options, but in addition for competing conceptions of the US and its position on this planet. Drawing on large archival learn and vast studying in highbrow and rhetorical histories, this finished account indicates chilly warriors debating “worldviews” as well as extra strictly instrumental tactical goals. Spirits of the chilly War is a rigorous scholarly account of the strategic debate of the early chilly War—a cultural diagnostic of yank defense discourse and an exam of its origins.
Read Online or Download Spirits of the Cold War: Contesting Worldviews in the Classical Age of American Security Strategy (Rhetoric & Public Affairs) PDF
Similar rhetoric books
Think figuring out what the mind craves from each story it encounters, what fuels the good fortune of any nice tale, and what retains readers transfixed. stressed for tale unearths those cognitive secrets--and it is a game-changer for somebody who has ever set pen to paper. nearly all of writing recommendation specializes in "writing good" as though it have been similar to telling an exceptional tale.
Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century the US revolutionizes how we predict approximately confession and its ubiquitous position in American tradition. It argues that the sheer act of labeling a textual content a confession has develop into essentially the most strong, and most unconsidered, different types of intervening in American cultural politics.
Upsetting Composition Commonplaces
In provoking Composition Commonplaces, Ian Barnard argues that composition nonetheless keeps the majority of educational practices that have been utilized in the many years sooner than poststructuralist idea discredited them. whereas acknowledging that a few of the foundational insights of poststructuralist concept might be tough to translate to the study room, Barnard upends numerous in particular intransigent tenets that proceed to persuade the instructing of writing and the way scholars are inspired to appreciate writing.
Composing Media Composing Embodiment
“What any physique is—and is ready to do—cannot be disentangled from the media we use to devour and convey texts. ” ---from the creation. Kristin Arola and Anne Wysocki argue that composing in new media is composing the body—is embodiment. In Composing (Media) = Composing (Embodiment), they havebrought jointly a robust set of essays that agree at the desire for compositionists—and their students—to interact with a variety of new media texts.
Extra info for Spirits of the Cold War: Contesting Worldviews in the Classical Age of American Security Strategy (Rhetoric & Public Affairs)
Sample text
