Flash effect

By David J. Tietge

Subjects: Politics and government, Social aspects of Technology, United states, politics and government, 1945-1989, Religion and science, Science, United states, social conditions, 1945-, Social aspects of Cold War, Rhetoric, English language, Popular culture, united states, Popular culture, Cold war, Cold War, Religion and science, history, Science, social aspects, Political aspects of Rhetoric, Social conditions, Technology, Social aspects, History, Social aspects of Science, Political aspects, Technology, social aspects

Description: "The ways science and technology are portrayed in advertising, in the news, in our politics, and in the culture at large inform the way we respond to these particular facts of life. The better we are at recognizing the rhetorical intentions of the purveyors of information and promoters of mass culture, the more adept we become at responding intelligently to them.". "Flash Effect, a book by David J. Tietge, documents the manner in which leaders at the highest levels of our political and cultural institutions conflated the rhetoric of science and technology with the rhetorics of religion and patriotism to express their policies for governance at the onset of the Cold War and to explain them to the American public."--BOOK JACKET.