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Presidential Rhetoric from Wilson to Obama: Constructing crises, fast and slow book cover

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Presidential Rhetoric from Wilson to Obama Constructing crises, fast and slow

By Wesley Widmaier Copyright 2015
162 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

162 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Over the past century, presidential constructions of crises have spurred recurring redefinitions of U.S. interests, as crusading advance has alternated with realist retrenchment. For example, Harry Truman and George W. Bush constructed crises that justified liberal crusades in the Cold War and War on Terror. In turn, each was followed by realist successors, as Dwight Eisenhower and Barack Obama... Read more

1. Constructing Crises, Converting Values, and Credibility Gaps  2. Wilsonian Transformations: Presidential Rhetoric and Crusading Internationalism  3. Constructing Cold War Consensus: Truman’s Crusade and Eisenhower’s Restraint  4. The Limits to the Cold War Consensus – and to the Pragmatic Lessons of Vietnam  5. Constructing Liberal Lessons of Vietnam – and the Limits to Post-Cold War Pragmatism  6. Constructing a Crusading Freedom Agenda or a Pragmatic Responsibility to Protect  7. Conclusions: Populism, Intellectualism and the Limits of Foreign Policy by Crisis

Biography

Wesley W. Widmaier is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, 2011-2015 at Griffith University Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University.

Widmaier (Griffith Univ., Australia) presents readers with an intriguing theory about how US presidents craft foreign policy and the rhetoric used to communicate foreign policy to the American public.
-- J. R. Hedtke, Cabrini College, CHOICE

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