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Book Reviews Book Reviews Denise Bostdorff, Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine: The Cold War Call to Arms. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xii 193 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Ira Chernus, University of Colorado at Boulder âThe making of words is indeed an act, not a business distinct from the hard, behavioral part of politics,â Daniel Rodgers has written. âPolitical talk is political action of a particular, often powerful, sort.â This might well be the motto of Denise Bostdorff, a ªne representative of a group of scholars who deserve much more attention than they often receive: scholars of rhetoric who have turned their skills to illuminating the verbal dimension of the Cold War. As Bostdorff points out in her introduction, policymakers respond to reality as they see it, and the way they see it depends largely on the way they describe it and hear it described by others. Hence, there is no way to separate the verbal from all the other dimensions that make up the full picture of Cold War history. Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine offers a detailed study of one crucial moment in that history, 12 March 1947, when a less-than-healthy President Harry S. Truman stood
Journal of Cold War Studies – MIT Press
Published: Jul 1, 2010
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