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Book The Cold War and the United States Information Agency

Download or read book The Cold War and the United States Information Agency written by Nicholas J. Cull and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published at a time when the U.S. government's public diplomacy is in crisis, this book provides an exhaustive account of how it used to be done. The United States Information Agency was created in 1953 to "tell America's story to the world" and, by engaging with the world through international information, broadcasting, culture and exchange programs, became an essential element of American foreign policy during the Cold War. Based on newly declassified archives and more than 100 interviews with veterans of public diplomacy, from the Truman administration to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nicholas J. Cull relates both the achievements and the endemic flaws of American public diplomacy in this period. Major topics include the process by which the Truman and Eisenhower administrations built a massive overseas propaganda operation; the struggle of the Voice of America radio to base its output on journalistic truth; the challenge of presenting Civil Rights, the Vietnam War, and Watergate to the world; and the climactic confrontation with the Soviet Union in the 1980s. This study offers remarkable and new insights into the Cold War era.

Book Inventing Public Diplomacy

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  • Author : Wilson P. Dizard
  • Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9781588262882
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Inventing Public Diplomacy written by Wilson P. Dizard and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public diplomacy - the uncertain art of winning public support abroad for one's government and its foreign policies - constitutes a critical instrument of U.S. policy in the wake of the Bush administration's recent military interventions and its renunciation of widely accepted international accords. Wilson Dizard Jr. offers the first comprehensive account of public diplomacy's evolution within the U.S. foreign policy establishment, ranging from World War II to the present. Dizard focuses on the U.S. Information Agency and its precursor, the Office of War Information. Tracing the political ups and downs determining the agency's trajectory, he highlights its instrumental role in creating the policy and programs underpinning today's public diplomacy, as well as the people involved. The USIA was shut down in 1999, but it left an important legacy of what works and what doesn't in presenting U.S. policies and values to the rest of the world. Inventing Public Diplomacy is an unparalleled history of U.S. efforts at organized international propaganda.

Book Premises for Propaganda

Download or read book Premises for Propaganda written by Leo Bogart and published by New York : Free Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bogen er udgivet i 1976 og gengiver i forkortet udgave et studie, der i 1954 er afleveret til the United States Information Agency (USIA) med forslag til hvordan virksomheden skulle organiseres. Rapporten blev umiddelbart klassificeret fortroligt og først nedklassificeret efter 20 år. Bogen giver et unikt indblik i de tanker, som den amerikanske administration havde om informationsvirksomhed i begyndelsen af 1950erne. Det var en tid med krigen i Korea og senator McCarthy's høringer i Kongressen. Forordet skal også ses i lyset af, at i 1976 havde USA på en lidet ærefuld måde lige forladt Vietnam.

Book Selling the American Way

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  • Author : Laura A. Belmonte
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2013-03-01
  • ISBN : 081220123X
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book Selling the American Way written by Laura A. Belmonte and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1955, the United States Information Agency published a lavishly illustrated booklet called My America. Assembled ostensibly to document "the basic elements of a free dynamic society," the booklet emphasized cultural diversity, political freedom, and social mobility and made no mention of McCarthyism or the Cold War. Though hyperbolic, My America was, as Laura A. Belmonte shows, merely one of hundreds of pamphlets from this era written and distributed in an organized attempt to forge a collective defense of the "American way of life." Selling the American Way examines the context, content, and reception of U.S. propaganda during the early Cold War. Determined to protect democratic capitalism and undercut communism, U.S. information experts defined the national interest not only in geopolitical, economic, and military terms. Through radio shows, films, and publications, they also propagated a carefully constructed cultural narrative of freedom, progress, and abundance as a means of protecting national security. Not simply a one-way look at propaganda as it is produced, the book is a subtle investigation of how U.S. propaganda was received abroad and at home and how criticism of it by Congress and successive presidential administrations contributed to its modification.

Book The Decline and Fall of the United States Information Agency

Download or read book The Decline and Fall of the United States Information Agency written by Nicholas J. Cull and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using newly declassified archives and interviews with practitioners, Nicholas J. Cull has pieced together the story of the final decade in the life of the United States Information Agency, revealing the decisions and actions that brought the United States' apparatus for public diplomacy into disarray.

Book Winning the Cold War  the U S  Ideological Offensive

Download or read book Winning the Cold War the U S Ideological Offensive written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on role of private business, educational, and trade union organization in fostering positive U.S. image abroad; Classified material has been deleted.

Book Modern Communications and Foreign Policy

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Modern Communications and Foreign Policy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Future of United States Public Diplomacy

Download or read book The Future of United States Public Diplomacy written by United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Winning the Cold War

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Winning the Cold War written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on role of private business, educational, and trade union organization in fostering positive U.S. image abroad; Classified material has been deleted.

Book Winning the Cold War  The U S  Ideological Offensive

Download or read book Winning the Cold War The U S Ideological Offensive written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Winning the Cold War  the United States Ideological Offensive

Download or read book Winning the Cold War the United States Ideological Offensive written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Report of the United States Advisory Commission on Information

Download or read book The Report of the United States Advisory Commission on Information written by United States. Advisory Commission on Information and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Winning the Cold War

Download or read book Winning the Cold War written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearts  Minds  Voices

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  • Author : Jason C. Parker
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016-09-01
  • ISBN : 0190251867
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Hearts Minds Voices written by Jason C. Parker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War superpowers endeavored mightily to "win hearts and minds" abroad through what came to be called public diplomacy. While many target audiences were on the conflict's original front-lines in Europe, the vast majority resided in areas in the throes of decolonization and experienced the Cold War as public diplomacy- as a media war for their allegiance rather than as violence. In these areas, superpower public diplomacy encountered volatile issues of race, empire, poverty, and decolonization-which intersected with the dynamics of the Cold War and with anti-imperialist currents. The challenge to US public diplomacy was acute. Jim Crow and Washington's European-imperial alliances were inseparable from the image of the United States and put American outreach unavoidably on the defensive. Newly independent voices in the non-European world responded to this media war by launching public-diplomacy campaigns of their own. In addition to validating the strategic importance of public diplomacy, they articulated a different vision of the postwar world. Rejecting the superpowers' Cold War, they forged the "Third World project" around nonalignment, post-imperial economic development, and anti-colonial racial solidarity. In doing so, Jason C. Parker argues, the United States inadvertently helped to nurture the "Third World" as a transnational imagined community on the postwar global landscape. Tracing US public diplomacy during the early years of the Cold War, Hearts, Minds, Voices narrates how US foreign policy engaged with and impacted the Global South and international history more broadly.

Book Winning the Cold War  Impact abroad of U S  private information mass media  Impact abroad of special activities of selected private U S  organizations  Problems and techniques of international communications  September 11  12  and 13  1963

Download or read book Winning the Cold War Impact abroad of U S private information mass media Impact abroad of special activities of selected private U S organizations Problems and techniques of international communications September 11 12 and 13 1963 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on role of private business, educational, and trade union organization in fostering positive U.S. image abroad; Classified material has been deleted.

Book Murrow s Cold War

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  • Author : Gregory M. Tomlin
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2016-05-01
  • ISBN : 1612347711
  • Pages : 399 pages

Download or read book Murrow s Cold War written by Gregory M. Tomlin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1961 America’s most prominent journalist, Edward R. Murrow, ended a quarter-century career with the Columbia Broadcasting System to join the administration of John F. Kennedy as director of the United States Information Agency (USIA). Charged with promoting a positive image abroad, the agency sponsored overseas research programs, produced documentaries, and operated the Voice of America to spread the country’s influence throughout the world. As director of the USIA, Murrow hired African Americans for top spots in the agency and leveraged his celebrity status at home to challenge all Americans to correct the scourge of domestic racism that discouraged developing countries, viewed as strategic assets, from aligning with the West. Using both overt and covert propaganda programs, Murrow forged a positive public image for Kennedy administration policies in an unsettled era that included the rise of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and support for Vietnam’s Ngo Dinh Diem. Murrow’s Cold War tackles an understudied portion of Murrow’s life, reveals how one of America’s most revered journalists improved the global perception of the United States, and exposes the importance of public diplomacy in the advancement of U.S. foreign policy.

Book Cultural Exchange and the Cold War

Download or read book Cultural Exchange and the Cold War written by Yale Richmond and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some fifty thousand Soviets visited the United States under various exchange programs between 1958 and 1988. They came as scholars and students, scientists and engineers, writers and journalists, government and party officials, musicians, dancers, and athletes&—and among them were more than a few KGB officers. They came, they saw, they were conquered, and the Soviet Union would never again be the same. Cultural Exchange and the Cold War describes how these exchange programs (which brought an even larger number of Americans to the Soviet Union) raised the Iron Curtain and fostered changes that prepared the way for Gorbachev's glasnost, perestroika, and the end of the Cold War. This study is based upon interviews with Russian and American participants as well as the personal experiences of the author and others who were involved in or administered such exchanges. Cultural Exchange and the Cold War demonstrates that the best policy to pursue with countries we disagree with is not isolation but engagement.