Tag Archives: Kenneth Osgood
Wednesday’s Book Review: “Selling War in a Media Age”
Selling War in a Media Age: The Presidency and Public Opinion in the American Century. Edited by Kenneth Osgood and Andrew K. Frank. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. Collected works are always problematic. There is always the challenge of … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, World War II
Tagged Andrew K. Frank, By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, cold war, Cuban Missile Crisis, détente, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Kenneth Osgood, Mutually Assured Destruction, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Paul S. Boyer, Ronald Reagan, Selling War in a Media Age: The Presidency and Public Opinion in the American Century, Spanish-American War, strategic defense initiative, Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad, University Press of Florida, Vietnam War, William McKinley, World War I, World War II
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International Prestige and Soft Power in the History of Spaceflight
Almost from the beginning of thought about the potential of flight in space, theorists believed that the activity would garner worldwide prestige for those accomplishing it. For example, in 1946 the newly-established RAND Corporation published the study, a Preliminary Design … Continue reading
Posted in Apollo, Cold War Competition, History, International Space Station, Politics, Science, Space, Space Shuttle
Tagged 1960s, American exceptionalism, Apollo, Caspar Weinberger, cold war, Department of Defense, Gemini, Greg Easterbrook, History, international relations, International Space Station, James Lipp, JFK, Joseph Nye, Kenneth Osgood, Moon, Moon race, NASA, Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship, presidential power, public policy, RAND Corporation, soft power, Soviet Union, space science, space shuttle, U.S. Civil Space
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