Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds: Lbj, Barry Goldwater, and the AD That Changed American Politics - Hardcover
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Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds: Lbj, Barry Goldwater, and the AD That Changed American Politics
The grainy black-and-white television ad shows a young girl in a flower-filled meadow, holding a daisy and plucking its petals, which she counts one by one. As the camera slowly zooms in on her eye, a man's solemn countdown replaces hers. At zero the little girl's eye is engulfed by an atomic mushroom cloud. As the inferno roils in the background, President Lyndon B. Johnson's voice intones,...
Robert Mann holds the Manship Chair in Journalism at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University and is co-director of the school's Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs. Formerly an aide to three U.S. senators and a Louisiana governor, Mann is the author of critically acclaimed political histories of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. His essays and...
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🏆 2011 PROSE Honorable Mention - Media/Cultural Studies Award
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