Convinced that cultural influence was linked to political and economic power, the Eisenhower admi... more Convinced that cultural influence was linked to political and economic power, the Eisenhower administration (1953-1961) sponsored America's premier jazz musicians' goodwill tours abroad as part of its cultural foreign policy agenda. These tours helped the United States government in its global propaganda campaign against the Soviet Union and its communist allies, who widely reported and successfully exploited the racial tension and violence that accompanied the rise of the civil rights movement in the United States.
This essay analyzes the coverage in The New York Times of the Columbian quadricentennial at a ti... more This essay analyzes the coverage in The New York Times of the Columbian quadricentennial at a time when Americans were less skeptical then today about theories of inevitable human progress, the workings of Divine Providence, and the greatness of national heroes, in addition to being less concerned about racial equality, social justice, and environmental destruction. Reporting in the New York Times during the quadricentennial reflected the positive images of Christopher Columbus that were created in the United States to serve various late nineteenth-century nationalistic, ethnic, and religious factions, which coalesced to produce what the newspaper considered America's first great national public spectacle.
Convinced that cultural influence was linked to political and economic power, the Eisenhower admi... more Convinced that cultural influence was linked to political and economic power, the Eisenhower administration (1953-1961) sponsored America's premier jazz musicians' goodwill tours abroad as part of its cultural foreign policy agenda. These tours helped the United States government in its global propaganda campaign against the Soviet Union and its communist allies, who widely reported and successfully exploited the racial tension and violence that accompanied the rise of the civil rights movement in the United States.
This essay analyzes the coverage in The New York Times of the Columbian quadricentennial at a ti... more This essay analyzes the coverage in The New York Times of the Columbian quadricentennial at a time when Americans were less skeptical then today about theories of inevitable human progress, the workings of Divine Providence, and the greatness of national heroes, in addition to being less concerned about racial equality, social justice, and environmental destruction. Reporting in the New York Times during the quadricentennial reflected the positive images of Christopher Columbus that were created in the United States to serve various late nineteenth-century nationalistic, ethnic, and religious factions, which coalesced to produce what the newspaper considered America's first great national public spectacle.
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