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Introduction: Democracy and Deception

  • John M. Schuessler
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Deceit on the Road to War
This chapter is in the book Deceit on the Road to War
© 2017 Cornell University Press, Ithaca

© 2017 Cornell University Press, Ithaca

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction: Democracy and Deception 1
  5. 1. Explaining Democratic Deception 8
  6. 2. Shifting Blame to the Axis: FDR’s Undeclared War 27
  7. 3. Shifting Blame to the Communists: LBJ and the Vietnam War 59
  8. 4. Overselling the Iraq War 93
  9. Conclusion: Deception and Democracy in International Relations 117
  10. Notes 127
  11. Index 167
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501701627-002

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction: Democracy and Deception 1
  5. 1. Explaining Democratic Deception 8
  6. 2. Shifting Blame to the Axis: FDR’s Undeclared War 27
  7. 3. Shifting Blame to the Communists: LBJ and the Vietnam War 59
  8. 4. Overselling the Iraq War 93
  9. Conclusion: Deception and Democracy in International Relations 117
  10. Notes 127
  11. Index 167
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