Ira Chernus  
PROFESSOR OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER

RESEARCH PROJECTS

My work on Eisenhower is appearing in three books:

Now available:

General Eisenhower: Ideology and Rhetoric (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2002). This book appears in the MSU Press Rhetoric and Public Affairs Series.

Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace (a study of Eisenhower's famous speech) (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. This books appears in the Texas A&M Press Library of Presidential Rhetoric.

In press:

Apocalypse Management: Eisenhower and the Discourse of National Insecurity (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, forthcoming) .

Two of my articles on Eisenhower are currently available on this website:

The Word Peace as a Weapon of (Cold) War

Eisenhower: Faith and Fear in the Fifties

My textbook on the history of nonviolence in the United States is American Nonviolence: The History of an Idea (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004)

I am now studying the origins of the national (in)security state in the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

A survey of my some of findings as of March, 2004 is in "National InSecurity, Homeland InSecurity".

 

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