{"product_id":"from-quills-to-tweets-how-america-communicates-about-war-and-revolution-9781626167117","title":"From Quills to Tweets: How America Communicates","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile today's presidential tweets may seem a light-year apart from the scratch of quill pens during the era of the American Revolution, the importance of political communication is eternal. This book explores the roles that political narratives, media coverage, and evolving communication technologies have played in precipitating, shaping, and concluding or prolonging wars and revolutions over the course of US history. The case studies begin with the Sons of Liberty in the era of the American Revolution, cover American wars in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and conclude with a look at the conflict against ISIS in the Trump era. Special chapters also examine how propagandists shaped American perceptions of two revolutions of international significance: the Russian Revolution and the Chinese Revolution. Each chapter analyzes its subject through the lens of the messengers, messages, and communications-technology-media to reveal the effects on public opinion and the trajectory and conduct of the conflict. The chapters collectively provide an overview of the history of American strategic communications on wars and revolutions that will interest scholars, students, and communications strategists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis important new book, edited by three senior members of the Strategy and Policy Department at the U.S. Naval War College, contributes significant knowledge that will be of value to both scholars and practitioners in our information age. Keeping in mind that national security concerns launched and continue to propel the information revolution, From Quills to Tweets uses historical case studies of the United States across three centuries to strengthen our understanding of information as an elemental strategic dimension of war. * H-Diplo *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Message, Messenger, Medium, and Political Environment    Andrea J. Dew, Marc A. Genest, and S. C. M. Paine  Part I. Introduction    Committees of Correspondence and Early Newspapers     Marc A. Genest  1. The Message Heard \"Round the World\" and the First American Political Campaign    Marc A. Genest  2. Why Communications Mattered in the War of 1812    Troy Bickham   Part II. Introduction    Mass Circulation Newspapers, Magazines, and the Telegraph     Marc A. Genest   3. The Communications Revolution during the US Civil War    Martin J. Manning  4. The Cuban Junta in Exile and the Origins of the Spanish-American War    Michelle D. Getchell  5. Narrating the War in the Philippines, 1899-1902    David J. Silbey  6. John Reed and US Perceptions of the Russian Revolution    Bruce A. Elleman  7. Theodore Roosevelt's Verbal Insurgency against Woodrow Wilson in World War I    J. Lee Thompson  Part III. Introduction    Early Mass Media: Print and Radio    Marc A. Genest   8. Edgar Snow and Shaping US Perceptions of the Chinese Civil War    S. C. M. Paine   9. Franklin D. Roosevelt and World War II    Michael G. Carew  10. Selling a Limited War in Korea, 1950-53     Steven Casey   Part IV. Introduction       Mass Media: Print, Radio, Television, and Cable       Marc A. Genest  11. How Presidents Explained Vietnam, 1954-75      David Kaiser  12. American Wartime Communication Strategies during the Gulf War      Judith Baroody   Part V. Introduction      The Twenty-First Century Information Age: Print, Radio, Cable TV, Internet, and Social Media      Andrea J. Dew and Marc A. Genest   13. Struggling to Overcome the Afghan Taliban's Master Narratives      Thomas H. Johnson and Matthew C. DuPée  14. The Challenge of Outcommunicating the Islamic State      Haroro J. Ingram and Craig A. Whiteside  15. Communicating the Global War on Terror from Speeches to Tweets      Andrea J. Dew  Conclusion: Tweaking the Tweets      Andrea J. Dew, Marc A. Genest, S. C. M. Paine   List of Contributors   Index","brand":"Georgetown University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041786167639,"sku":"9781626167117","price":122.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781626167117.jpg?v=1750951670","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-quills-to-tweets-how-america-communicates-about-war-and-revolution-9781626167117","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}