Power and the People: Executive Management of Public Opinion in Foreign Affairs, 1897-1921

by Robert C. Hilderbrand

Overview

Hilderbrand traces the use of presidential power to influence popular attitudes under four presidents — McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson — and emphasizes the efforts of policymakers to manage public opinion that supposedly influenced decisions in foreign policy. He shows that the executive is considerably freer to make foreign policy than historians have previously supposed and that power belongs to the presidents, not to the people.

Originally published in 1981.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807896853
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	01/06/2011
Series:	Supplementary Volumes to The Papers of Woodrow Wilson
Edition description:	1
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Robert Hilderbrand is professor of history at University of South Dakota.

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An important contribution to the public's understanding of the history of information control by the executive branch and of the public's inability to influence policy in the face of the enormous prestige and power of the president's office.—Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Editorial Reviews

"An important contribution to the public's understanding of the history of information control by the executive branch and of the public's inability to influence policy in the face of the enormous prestige and power of the president's office."--"Journal of Interdisciplinary History"

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