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Persuader-in-Chief: Global Opinion and Public Diplomacy in the Age of Obama [Paperback]

Nancy Snow
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January 20, 2009
"Yes We Can" and "Yes We Did." McCain and Obama.Al Jazeera and Al Hurra. Frost and Nixon. Propaganda and persuasion. Orange juice and lemonade. Louis Armstrong and Edward R. Murrow. George Bush and those darn shoes.

Huffington Post blogger and public diplomacy scholar Nancy Snow welcomes America and the world to the Age of Obama with this biting, funny, generous-minded look at the challenges President Obama will face as he communicates about America with the rest of the globe.


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Product Details

  • Paperback: 120 pages
  • Publisher: Nimble Books; 1st edition (January 20, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1934840815
  • ISBN-13: 978-1934840818
  • Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.2 x 10 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,177,143 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Dr. Nancy Snow (Ph.D., International Relations) is a world-renowned public diplomacy and propaganda studies expert who specializes in America's image and reputation in the world. She was born in Augusta, Georgia, hometown of James "I Feel Good" Brown. She was raised in a male-dominated household of four older brothers as the youngest and only daughter of Victor and Suzanne Snow. This explains her strong attachment to sports and food.

Snow is Full Professor of Communications at California State University, Fullerton and Adjunct Professor in the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California. She has been a visiting professor at the IDC-Herzliya (Israel), Syracuse University, Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), UCLA, and Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan).

Snow received her doctorate in international relations from the School of International Service, American University in Washington, D.C. Her specializations include international/intercultural communication, U.S. foreign and cultural policy, and peace and conflict resolution studies. She worked as a cultural affairs and educational exchange specialist at the U.S. Information Agency and refugee and migration specialist at the U.S. State Department. She also studied in the Federal Republic of Germany as a Fulbright scholar and taught American Foreign Policy and American Culture as a Fulbright professor in Japan.

Snow has published seven books, including several that have been published in other languages. Her personal website is www.nancysnow.com.

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4.0 out of 5 stars This is not Dr. Snow's best work... January 22, 2010
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When it comes to this subject, Nancy Snow is definitely an expert with her academic and professional experience, her passion, her enthusiasm, and her writing style. I am a grad student and share similar research interests. I believe I pretty much read everything she has written so far. Though I really cannot praise this book.

If you are interested in soft power, public opinion, new methods of communication, and how Obama is likely to change American foreign policy in these terms, this is indeed a good book. But it doesn't have the intellectual richness of Dr. Snow's other books and articles. Frankly speaking, I consider the book to be a long, well-written blog post.

I gave the book four stars because someone had to write about Obama and public diplomacy; and Dr. Snow is one of the most qualified scholars to do so.

If you heard the term public diplomacy but don't know much about it or if you want to learn about public diplomacy, get the book. It is a great resource, easy to read, and contains information about several aspects of public diplomacy. If you are familiar with the term and want to learn more, try Dr. Snow's other books.
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