The truth is our weapon
Subtitle: the rhetorical diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles
By: Chris Tudda.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1890-1969 -- Political and social views.; Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959 -- Political and social views.; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Cold War.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1953-1961.; United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.; United States -- Foreign relations -- Communist countries.; Communist countries -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.