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The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American propaganda and public diplomacy, 1945-1989
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Cambridge University Press
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2009
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Prologue: The Foundations of U.S. Information Overseas
1. Getting the Sheep to Speak: The Truman Years, 1945-53
1. Surviving the Peace: Bill Benton Lays the Foundations, 1945-47
2. Waging Cold War: George V. Allen Holds the Fort, 1947-49
3. The Campaign of Truth: Edward Barrett Makes Progress, 1950-51
4. Things Left Undone: The Independence Debate, 1950-53
2. Mobilizing the P-Factor: Eisenhower and the Birth of the USIA, 1953-56
1. The Ordeal: The McCarthy Crisis and the Creation of the USIA, January-July, 1953
2. Streibert Takes Charge: The Structure of the USIA in 1953
3. From Atoms for Peace to Peoples Capitalism: The USIAs Output, 1954-56
4. The USIA and Cold War Geopolitics: 1954-56
3. In the Shadow of Sputnik: The Second Eisenhower Administration, 1957-61
1. Egghead with Troubles: Arthur Larson and the USIA in 1957
2. Breaking the Milwaukee Effect: The Return of George V. Men
3. Crusading with Culture: The Cultural Program in the U.S.S.R., 1958-60
4. Allens USIA to January 1961: The VOA Charter and the Sprague Committee
4. Inventing Truth: The Kennedy Administration, 1961-63
1. Facing Khrushchev: Murrows USIA to December 1961
2. Representing America in 1962: USIA Film and Civil Rights
3. The Cuban Missile Crisis
4. From Vietnam to Dallas
5. Maintaining Confidence: The Early Johnson Years, 1963-65
1. Zenith: The USIA and the Kennedy Assassination, November; 1963-August 1965
2. Carl Rowan: Civil Rights and Cold War Propaganda
3. The USIA in the Developing World: From the Indonesian Crisis to the Dominican Intervention, 1964-65
4. The Road to JUSPAO: The USIA in Vietnam to July 1965
6. My Radio Station: The Johnson Administration, 1965-69
1. Public Diplomacy and a Public Diplomat: Leonard Marks at the USIA
2. JUSPAO at Work: The USIA in Vietnam, August 1965-68
3. Projecting the Great Society
4. Nadir: The USIA, World Opinion, and the Crisis of the Late 1960s
7. Surviving Detente: The Nixon Years, 1969-74
1. The True Believer: Frank Shakespeare and the USIA, 1969-70
2. Nixons Vietnam, 1969-74
3. Fighting for Control: Shakespeares Struggle for Autonomy, 1971-72
4. Watergate and James Keogh: January 1973-August 1974
8. A New Beginning: The Ford Administration, 1974-77
1. Navigating the Rapids, 1974-75
2. The Stanton Commission, 1974-75
3. The End in Vietnam and the VOA Charter, 1975-76
4. Rehumanizing America: The Bicentennial, 1976
9. From the Two-Way Mandate to the Second Cold War: The Carter Administration, 1977-81
1. Beyond Stanton: Taming the VOA and Creating the ICA, 1977-78
2. John Reinhardts Good Fight: Carters Foreign Policy to December 1978
3. Progress and Peril: The ICA in 1979
4. Valley of die Shadow: Iran and Afghanistan, 1979-81
10. Project Truth: The First Reagan Administration, 1981-84
1. The Arrival of Charles Z.Wick
2. The Crisis at the Voice of America, 1981-82
3. From Project Democracy to WORLDNET: Confronting Communism in 1983
4. Wick under Fire: The USIA in 1984
11. Showdown: The Second Reagan Administration, 1985-89
1. Facing Gorbachev, 1985
2. The Road to Reykjavik, 1986
3. In the Shadow of Iran-Contra, 1987
4. The Home Stretch, 1988-89
Epilogue: Victory and the Strange Death of the USIA, 1989-99
Conclusion: Trajectories, Maps, and Lessons from the Past of U.S. Public Diplomacy
1. Five Trajectories
2. Three Maps
3. Seven Lessons
Selected Bibliography
Index
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