Background
Evensen, Bruce Joel was born on February 4, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Edgar and Frances (Kapes) Evensen.
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Truman, Palestine, and the Press: Shaping Conventional Wisdom at the Beginning of the Cold War (Contributions in Military Studies #144) Truman, Palestine, and the Press: Shaping Conventional Wisdom at the Beginning of the Cold War (Contributions in Military Studies #144) by Evensen, Bruce J ( Author ) Hardcover Feb- 1992 Hardcover Feb- 20- 1992
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( In this absorbing book, Bruce J. Evensen analyzes the r...)
In this absorbing book, Bruce J. Evensen analyzes the role of the mass media, public opinion, and the Zionists in the evolution of America's Palestine policy during the Truman administration. Taking issue with recent revisionist historians who argue that Truman had little difficulty manipulating public opinion, Evensen claims that the press and an aroused public opinion successfully frustrated the President's course on Palestine and elicited his support of the United Nations' partition of Jewish and Arab states and Truman's early recognition of Israel. Evensen emphasizes the development of a conventional wisdom that placed the Middle East at the center of U.S. strategic planning and saw limiting Soviet penetration as a primary goal. Within this context, he shows a divided Truman administration, which was uncertain how to act on the Jewish state. Reluctantly, the administration initially supported the UN's vote to partition the region; then, as Palestine erupted into violence, it attempted to abandon this decision. Interpreting the President's action as a gutless appeasement of the Arabs and an indication of his fear of the Soviets, the media, reflecting the public's Cold War fears, confronted the administration's policy in the Middle East and frustrated the President's effort to abandon the partition scheme. The media's role in reflecting and shaping competing visions of reality, which became the conventional wisdom of policy making, is a key part of this study.
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journalist mass communication educator
Evensen, Bruce Joel was born on February 4, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Edgar and Frances (Kapes) Evensen.
Bachelor of Science, Northwestern University, 1973; Master of Science, Northwestern University, 1974; Doctor of Philosophy in Mass Comm., University of Wisconsin, 1989.
Assignment editor, WVTO, Rockford, Illinois, 1974-1975; news director, WQFL, Rockford, 1975-1977; news director, Christian Broadcasting Network, Virginia Beach, Virginia, 1977-1980; national and world affairs news editor, Christian Broadcasting Network, Washington, 1981-1982; Middle East section chief, Christian Broadcasting Network, Jerusalem, Israel, 1983-1984; professor department journalism, Lincoln U., Jefferson City, Missoury, 1985; lecturer in radio-television-film, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, 1985-1988; professor department committee, DePaul University, Chicago, since 1988.
(Truman, Palestine, and the Press: Shaping Conventional Wi...)
( In this absorbing book, Bruce J. Evensen analyzes the r...)
Married Roberta Jane Bjorklund, November 30, 1985. Children: Stephen Daniel, Katherine Elizabeth.