TY - JOUR
AU - Herzstein, Robert E.
AB - 702 The Journal of American History September 2002 1941–1955 (The ambivalent normalization: sion. Politicians and journalists who regarded Discourse on Germany and images of Ger- the Germans as incorrigible naturally worked many in the USA, 1941–1955). By Thomas for policies to suppress German revitalization. Reuther. (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2000. 476 pp. The diversity of these views, according to DM 88, ISBN 3-515-07689-1.) In German. Reuther, created inconsistent policies. Ameri- can leaders from Franklin D. Roosevelt to The relationship between intellectual con- Dwight D. Eisenhower never received clear cepts, public opinion, publicity, and policy and consistent policy advice, either from pri- has long troubled scholars of international re- vate consultation or from public debate, be- lations. Too often complex ideas seem to be cause of these disagreements. Reuther demon- absorbed along with morning coffee and the strates that “ambivalence” through a series of New York Times. dialectical comparisons: Morgenthau with The German scholar Thomas Reuther uses Wallace, William Donovan with Sherwood, the discourse theories of Jürgen Habermas to Nitze with George Kennan, Kennan with bridge the gap between American images and James Burnham, Walter Lippmann with Dor- policies toward Germany. The policies, he ar- othy Thompson. Policies that emerged from gues, 
TI - Transmission Impossible: American Journalism as Cultural Diplomacy in Postwar Germany, 1945–1955. By Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. xxii, 230 pp. Cloth, $47.50, isbn 0-8071-2310-2. Paper, $22.50, isbn 0-8071-2409-5.)
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/3092296
DA - 2002-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/transmission-impossible-american-journalism-as-cultural-diplomacy-in-S6Drt4nd2P
SP - 702
EP - 703
VL - 89
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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