Introduction
Part One: The War against North Korea, June-November 1950
1: Keeping the Home Front Cool
2: Censorship is Abhorrent to General MacArthur
3: Mobilizing for a Police Action
4: On the Offensive
Part Two: The War against China, November 1950-July 1951
5: An Entirely New War
6: Dealing with the Disaster School of Journalism
7: Mobilizing with the Utmost Speed
8: Why Korea?
9: The MacArthur Controversy
Part Three: The Stalemate War, July 1951-July 1953
10: Interminable Truce Talks
11: Steady Improvements
12: The Advent of Eisenhower
Conclusion
Steven Casey is Senior Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War against Nazi Germany, 1941-1945 (OUP).
"Steven Casey has drawn a masterly analysis of what is certain to
become the standard work on its subject...The whole study is,
moreover, conveyed with real verve and at a cracking pace...An
exceptionally good book which does full justice to the complexity
of the comestic politics of the Korean War and the rold of the
media, official institutions, and politicians in shaping public
opinion."--Matthew Jones, Journal of American Studies
"Casey provides the best account to date of the relationship
between domestic politics and the war in Korea...His book is a
significant contribution to the literature on the Korean conflict
and the relationship between politics and diplomacy during the
early years of the Cold War. Most impressive is the author's
ability to place the war in a broader context."--Thomas W. Devine,
H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews
"As a study on the complex relationship among the executive branch,
congress, the media, and the public within a constitutional
democracy, Dr. Casey's Selling the Korean War is unparalleled in
both detail and insight. It is a major addition to the
literature--in any language--on the Korean War, and merits a
careful read by all who share an interest in the
subject."--Sung-Yoon Lee, H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews
"This careful study not only fills a notable gap in the literature
on the Korean War, it also makes a valuable addition to the short
list of books dealing with the conflict's impact on domestic
affairs inside the United States. Although Casey's main purpose is
to explain ' the government's efforts to sell the war at home,' he
achieves much more in persuasively challenging the conventional
wisdom about well-known key events and advancing perceptive new
interpretations of old issues."--James I. Matray, H-Diplo
Roundtable Reviews
"This well-written and thoughtfully argued study...warrants reading
not only by specialists on the Korean War but also by those
interested in the crucial foreign policy debates which occurred
during the final third of Truman's presidency."--Wilson D.
Miscamble, H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews
"This is, quite simply, a fantastically good book. Steven Casey's
exhaustively researched account of the hesitant, ambivalent effort
to sell America's first limited war to a reluctant public is a
brilliant evocation and analysis of the domestic shape of the
Korean War. Comparisons between the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan and
Vietnam are commonplace; readers may be surprised to discover how
much of the present dilemmas of U.S. foreign policy were
pre-figured over
half a century ago."--Marilyn B. Young, co-editor of Iraq and the
Lessons of Vietnam: Or How Not to Learn from the Past
"An exhaustively researched, highly readable, and path-breaking
study of the American political process experiencing the stresses
of the nation's first large-scale limited war. It is required
reading not only for students of the Korean era, but also for
anyone wishing to understand the divisiveness and rancor that
recurred in Vietnam and, most recently, in Iraq."--Ralph B.
Levering, author of The Cold War: A Post-Cold War History
"As a long-time claimant of expertise on the Korean War, I am
humbled by how much I learned from this well-written book, both in
information combed from the archives and in penetrating
insight."--William Stueck, author of Rethinking the Korean War
"A masterly analysis certain to become the standard work on it
subject...The whole study is conveyed with real verve and at a
cracking pace."--Matthew Jones, Journal of American Studies
"An exhaustively researched and insightful volume...[that] breaks
new ground in the analysis of the postwar era's first limited war.
Steven Casey has convincingly shown that, because of its unique
place in Cold War history, the Korean War produced unprecedented
ambivalence in the American national consciousness."--American
Communist History
"Exquisitely documented and exceptionally detailed."--Tae Yang
Kwak, Journal of World History
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