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Chargement... Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidencypar David Greenberg
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Some reservations: almost a quarter of the book repackages the facts and theses of Doris Kearns Goodwin's "The Bully Pulpit" but leaves out any mention of President Taft, jumping from Roosevelt to Wilson. The subtitle is inaccurate, it is not an inside history of the presidency but a history of presidential interaction with the press and the media as new media developed over the decades, from radio to the internet. It is a fairly straightforward linear history and so a useful reference book. ( ) A look at how Presidents have managed the news, from Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama. A bit rushed at the end; after taking almost 400 pages to get to Nixon, Greenberg whizzes through the last 4 1/2 decades in less than 100 pages, leaving the impression that more modern Presidents haven't improved their capabilities in handling how their messages, agendas, and image, is presented to the nation since Nixon, which doesn't seem likely. Still, it's well researched and moderately hopeful, lending credence to Lincoln's adage that 'You can't fool all of the people all of the time'. Although spin (as it's now known) can enhance a story and alleviate a problem, eventually an unpleasant truth will come out (the Great Depression is the classic, but not only, example) and the President who tries too hard to spin the story will find his problems much worse in the long run. Worth reading. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"The most powerful political tool of the modern presidency is control of the message and the image. The Greeks called it 'rhetoric,' Gilded Age politicians called it 'publicity,' and some today might call it 'lying,' but spin is a built-in feature of American democracy. Presidents deploy it to engage, persuade, and mobilize the people--in whom power ultimately resides. Presidential historian David Greenberg recounts the development of the White House spin machine from Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama. His sweeping narrative introduces us to the visionary advisers who taught politicians to manage the press, gauge public opinion, and master the successive new media of radio, television, and the Internet. We see Wilson pioneering the press conference, FDR scheming with his private pollsters, Reagan's aides hatching sound bites, and George W. Bush staging his extravagant photo-ops. We also see the past century's most provocative political critics, from H. L. Mencken to Stephen Colbert, grappling with the ambiguous role of spin in a democracy--its capacity for misleading but also for leading"--Provided by publisher. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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