Bring 'Em On

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 1 Political Legitimacy, Cultural Leadership, and Public Action
Chapter 4 2 Banal Militarism and the Culture of War
Chapter 5 3 National Security Strategy and the Ideology of Preventive War
Chapter 6 4 Foreign Policy, Public Diplomacy, and Public Relations: Selling America to the World
Chapter 7 5 The Problem with Patriotism: Steps Toward the Redemption of American Journalism and Democracy
Chapter 8 6 Culture as Persuasion: Metaphor as Weapon
Chapter 9 7 The Invisible Ally: Marketing Australia's War in Iraq
Chapter 10 8 The Construction of Arabs as Enemies: Post-9/11 Discourse of George W. Bush
Chapter 11 9 The Political Rhetoric of Sacrifice and Heroism and U.S. Military Intervention
Chapter 12 10 'The Great American Bubble': Fox News Channel, the 'Mirage' of Objectivity and the Isolation of American Public Opinion
Chapter 13 11 Pre-emptive Strikes on the Cultural Front: Big Radio, the Dixie Chicks, and Homeland Insecurity
Chapter 14 12 The Mass Media, Politics, and Warfare
Chapter 15 13 Might Makes Right: News Reportage as Discursive Weapon in the War in Iraq
Chapter 16 14 Journalists Embedded in Culture: War Stories as Political Strategy
Chapter 17 15 The Power of Public Reporting: The Independent Media Center's Challenge to Corporate Media
Chapter 18 Suggested Readings

...Provides carefully documented analysis, in chapters that stand both as self-contained studies and as building blocks in a multifaceted explanation as to how the media and public culture prepared the American public for the untested policy of so-called preventive war.