{"product_id":"the-truth-is-our-weapon-the-rhetorical-diplomacy-of-dwight-d-eisenhower-and-john-foster-dulles-hardcover","title":"The Truth Is Our Weapon: The Rhetorical Diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChris Tudda\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresident Dwight D. Eisenhower and his secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, deployed a tactic Chris Tudda calls \"rhetorical diplomacy\"-- sounding a belligerent note of anti-Communism in speeches, addresses, press conferences, and private meetings with allies and with Moscow. Yet all the while, Tudda discloses, the two were confidentially committed to a contradictory course--the establishment of a strong system of collective security in Western Europe, peaceful accommodation of the Soviet Union, and the maintenance of a new, albeit divided Germany. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTudda explores the Eisenhower administration's pursuit of these two mutually exclusive diplomatic strategies and reveals how failure to reconcile them endangered the fragile peace of the 1950s. He builds his argument through three case studies: of the administration's badgering the French and their allies to ratify the European Defense Community, of its threat to liberate Eastern Europe from Moscow's rule, and of its forcing the issue of German reunification. By emphasizing the threat from the Soviet Union, Eisenhower and Dulles were trying to promote an activist rather than an isolationist foreign policy. But their rhetorical diplomacy intensified Cold War tensions with European allies as well as with Moscow and effectively overwhelmed the administration's true diplomatic aims. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on American, British, Eastern European, and Soviet primary sources--many only recently unearthed--\u003ci\u003eThe Truth Is Our Weapon \u003c\/i\u003eis a major contribution to the historiography of Eisenhower's diplomacy and an important statement about the implications of public and private policy making.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChris Tudda is a historian with the U.S. Department of State. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 9.36 x 6.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757684588832,"sku":"9780807131404","price":64.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1ff86c66bd8152f751e405b3bca98777.webp?v=1780108952","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-truth-is-our-weapon-the-rhetorical-diplomacy-of-dwight-d-eisenhower-and-john-foster-dulles-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}