Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Rhetorical Presidency and U. S. Propaganda in the Twentieth Century -- I The Period of Propaganda and News -- 1 The Truman Administration's Legalization of Peacetime Propaganda -- 2 The Journalistic Paradigm: U. S. Domestic and International Propaganda, 1947- 1949 -- II The Period of Militarization -- 3 Creating a Militarized Propaganda Structure Through the CIA, PSB, and Campaign of Truth -- 4 Militarized Propaganda and the Campaign of Truth, 1950- 1952 -- III The Period of Institutionalization and Psychological Strategy -- 5 McCarthyism and the Rise and Fall of Congressional Involvement in Propaganda Operations -- 6 Propaganda as a Presidential Tool in the Eisenhower White House -- 7 The Rhetorical Presidency and the Eisenhower Administration, 1953- 1955 -- Conclusion: Expanding the Rhetorical Presidency -- Bibliography -- Index.