Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Cold War and Rhetoric: Conceptually and Critically -- Part I: Strategy -- 2. Rhetoric and Cold War: A Strategic Approach -- 3. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" Speech: A Case Study in the Strategic Use of Language -- 4. Rhetorical Portraiture: John F. Kennedy's March 2, 1962, Speech on the Resumption of Atmospheric Tests -- Part II: Metaphor -- 5. Cold War Motives and the Rhetorical Metaphor: A Framework of Criticism -- 6. Diffusing Cold War Demagoguery: Murrow versus McCarthy on "See It Now" -- 7. Metaphor and the Rhetorical Invention of Cold War "Idealists" -- Part III: Ideology -- 8. Critical and Classical Theory: An Introduction to Ideology Criticism -- 9. The Rhetoric of American Foreign Policy -- 10. Political Rhetoric and the Un-American Tradition -- Part IV: Conclusion -- 11. The Prospects of Cold War Criticism -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors.