Truth Is Our Weapon The Rhetorical Diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower And John Foster Dulles

"President 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." "Based on American, British, Eastern European, and Soviet primary sources - many only recently unearthed - The Truth is Our Weapon is a major contribution to the historiography of Eisenhower's diplomacy and an important statement about the implications of public and private policy making."--BOOK JACKET.Tudda, Chris is the author of 'Truth Is Our Weapon The Rhetorical Diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower And John Foster Dulles', published 2006 under ISBN 9780807131404 and ISBN 0807131407.