How We Forgot the Cold War A Historical Journey Across America

Name: How We Forgot the Cold War A Historical Journey Across America
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ISBN: 9780520282216

ISBN-10: 0520282213

ISBN-13: 9780520282216

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jon Wiener

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Hours after the USSR collapsed in 1991, Congress began making plans to establish the official memory of the Cold War. Conservatives dominated the proceedings, spending millions to portray the conflict as a triumph of good over evil and a defeat of totalitarianism equal in significance to World War II. In this provocative book, historian Jon Wiener visits Cold War monuments, museums, and memorials across the United States to find out how the era is being remembered. The author’s journey provides a history of the Cold War, one that turns many conventional notions on their heads.In an engaging travelogue that takes readers to sites such as the life-size recreation of Berlin’s Checkpoint…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/26/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Jon Wieneris Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Among his books areGimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files(UC Press) andHistorians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud and Power in the Ivory Tower.