Cold War Games: Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy Tapa dura - 2016

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Hardback. New. It is the early Cold War. The Soviet Union appears to be in irresistible ascendance, and moves to exploit the Olympic Games as a vehicle for promoting international communism. In response, the United States conceives a subtle, far-reaching psychological warfare campaign to blunt the Soviet advance. Drawing on newly declassified materials and archives, Toby C. Rider chronicles how the US government used the Olympics to promote democracy and its own policy aims during the tense early phase of the Cold War. Rider shows how the government, though constrained by traditions against interference in the Games, eluded detection by cooperating with private groups, including secretly funded A (c)migrA (c) organizations bent on liberating their home countries from Soviet control. At the same time, the United States appropriated Olympic host cities to hype the American economic and political system while, behind the scenes, the government attempted clandestine manipulation of the International… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Univ of Illinois Pr, 2016. Hardcover. New. 242 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches.