Helping them along: Astroturf, public opinion, and Nixon's Vietnam War

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dc.contributor.authorThelen, Sarah J.
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-10T14:33:33Z
dc.date.available2018-04-10T14:33:33Z
dc.date.issued2015-11
dc.date.updated2018-04-10T14:26:04Z
dc.description.abstractWith the successful mobilisation of the Silent Majority in November 1969, President Richard Nixon and his aides embarked on an ambitious attempt to reshape domestic public opinion on the Vietnam War. Utilising internal White House documents, this article explores the way in which these projects combined grassroots activism and Administration-coordinated astroturf campaigns to rally supporters. The successful creation of Americans for Winning the Peace marked the apex of these efforts, but this article demonstrates that unexpected costs let to the quick return to less elaborate, but still carefully coordinated, appeals to special interest groups by 1971.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationThelen, S. J. (2015) 'Helping them Along: Astroturf, Public Opinion, and Nixon's Vietnam War'. 49th Parallel, 37 pp.14-33,en
dc.identifier.endpage33en
dc.identifier.issn1753 - 5894
dc.identifier.issued37en
dc.identifier.journaltitle49th Parallelen
dc.identifier.startpage14en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/5766
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniverity of Nottingham; University of Birminghamen
dc.relation.urihttps://fortyninthparalleljournal.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/thelen-49thparallel-formatted3.pdf
dc.relation.urihttps://49thparalleljournal.org/
dc.rights© 2015 the author. Published under a Creative Commons license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/en
dc.subjectVietnam Waren
dc.subjectPublic opinionen
dc.subjectSilent majorityen
dc.subjectAmerican politicsen
dc.subjectNixon's presidencyen
dc.subjectRichard Nixonen
dc.titleHelping them along: Astroturf, public opinion, and Nixon's Vietnam Waren
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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