Total Cold War
Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10024394 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeff Broadwater (Barton College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 933-934 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4486540 |
| OpenAlex | W2085689959 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower saw the Cold War, in large part, as an ideological struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. It was a battle for which Americans, famously nonreflective as they are, seemed singularly ill-equipped. Few knowledgeable observers believed a Soviet attack on the United States was imminent, but millions of Americans feared the popular appeal of Marxist-Leninism. In 1953, Allen Dulles, then director of the Central Intelligence Agency, called publicly for a “new Magna Carta” that would articulate an ideology of American freedom and offer an intellectual alternative to communism (p. 289). The Eisenhower administration wanted to counter Soviet claims that American democracy stood for nothing more than the accumulation of as many material possessions as individual avarice, skill, and luck would permit. Despite the best efforts of the United States Information Agency (usia), the administration could not produce a coherent statement of American values. Ultimately, the usia's campaign to promote an ideology of freedom became, not a crusade for intellectual and political liberty, but an attempt to use the idea of freedom, whatever it meant, as a weapon of psychological warfare
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| Citations per year | 0.63 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2022 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |