The American Press and the Cold War The Rise of Authoritarianism in
During the Cold War, the United States enabled the rise of President Syngman Rhee’s repressive government in South Korea, and yet neither the American occupation nor Rhee’s growing authoritarianism ever became particularly controversial news stories in th
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OLIVER ELLIOTT
The American Press and the Cold War
Oliver Elliott
The American Press and the Cold War The Rise of Authoritarianism in South Korea, 1945–1954
Oliver Elliott Independent Scholar Barcelona, Spain
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Acknowledgements
This project began as a question conceived while preparing for a Master’s seminar with my PhD supervisor Steven Casey. To him, I owe a great debt of thanks for inspiring me to study the role of the press in American history and ensuring that the project remained on track. I also wish to thank Antony Best and Kristina Spohr for providing much needed perspective at a crucial early stage, as well as Matthew Jones and Kendrick Oliver for their insightful comments on an earlier draft. All mistakes are, of course, my own. Thanks to Christine Pardue, Megan Laddusaw and Emily Russell at Palgrave Macmillan who have made the process of turning my Ph.D. thesis into a book a remarkably swift and enjoyable one. The research for the book would not have been possible without the financial assistance provided by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Department of International History at the London School of Economics. Neither could I have visited so much of America without the assistance of so many amazing hosts and guides. James Person and the staff of the Woodrow Wilson Center
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