| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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The Truth Is Our Weapon: The Rhetorical Diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. By Chris Tudda. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xii, 224 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-3140-7.)

This book is based on the author's dissertation, completed in 2002 at American University. The dissertation is a unique genre, one of whose requirements is that it constitute a unique contribution to knowledge. Sometimes that uniqueness comes from the discovery of new artifacts or the uncovering of new evidence, sometimes from a powerful synthesis of existing scholarship, and sometimes from the advancement of a new theory. The Truth Is Our Weapon falls into the third category. It has a theory to market, and it is this: there was, in the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration, a basic discontinuity between foreign policy as conceived confidentially and that same foreign policy as articulated publicly through what the author refers to as "rhetorical diplomacy."

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