Review: State Department, Press, and Pressure Groups
| Author | Daniel Madar |
| Published date | 01 June 1972 |
| Date | 01 June 1972 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002070207202700214 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
314
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
anybody."
Johnson
was
much
more
bitter
towards
the
Senator.
He
equated
Fulbright's
votes
on
civil
rights and
his
opposition
to
the
war
with
pure
racism.
Both
books also
illustrate
the
bitterness
and
hostility
Acheson
and
the Tuesday
cabinet
felt
towards
the
press.
Nearly all
felt
the
press
was
perceptually incapable
of any
long-range
view.
The
immediate
and
the
startling
was
all
the
media
were
thought
to
be
interested
in.-Finally,
all
thought
that
the
success
in
defeating
the
external threat
depended
upon
the
ability
of
the government
to
contain
the
threat
posed
by
Congress,
the
media,
and
isolationism.
Neither
Stupak's
nor
Graff's
book
adds
anything
dramatic to
the
literature
on
foreign
policy
formation.
But
they
do
fill
in
the
picture
of
American foreign
policy-makers
perceiving
themselves
in
a
two-front
war:
against
the
communist
enemy
on
one
side
and,
on
the
other,
against
a
resurgent
isolationism
in
the
country
and
the
institutions
which
champion
it.
David
Forte/Skidmore
College
STATE
DEPARTMENT,
PRESS,
AND PRESSURE
GROUPS
A
Role
Analysis
William
0. Chittick
Rexdale,
Ont.:
John
Wiley,
1970,
viii,
373PP,
$10.95
The
actors
in
Professor
Chittick's
study
-
State
Department
information
and
policy
officers,
reporters,
and
foreign
policy
interest-group
leaders
-
are
directed
by
the
requirements
of
their
respective
roles
into
some
fre-
fuency
of
interaction,
and
they have
varying
degrees
of
interest
in
inter-
acting
co-operatively.
As
in
other
political
situations,
it
is
this
unequal
mixture
of
co-operative
motivation
which
accounts
for
the
characteristic
nature
of
their
relations
and
provides
subject
material
for
study.
The
actors' roles
intersect
in
the
transaction
of
information
and in-
fluence,
and
the
patterns
which
inspired
the
study
arise
from
differing
expectations
among
the
actors
as
to
how
much and
what
kinds
of
infor-
mation
and
influence
are desirable.
Effective
role
behaviour
for
report-
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