Culture of the Cold War

Name: Culture of the Cold War
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ISBN: 9780801851957

ISBN-10: 0801851955

ISBN-13: 9780801851957

Edition: 2nd 1996

Authors: Stephen J. Whitfield

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"Without the Cold War, what's the point of being an American?" As if in answer to this poignant question from John Updike's Rabbit at Rest, Stephen Whitfield examines the impact of the Cold War--and its dramatic ending--on American culture in an updated version of his highly acclaimed study. In a new epilogue to this second edition, he extends his analysis from the McCarthyism of the 1950s, including its effects on the American and European intelligensia, to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and beyond. Whitfield treats his subject matter with the eye of a historian, reminding the reader that the Cold War is now a thing of the past. His treatment underscores the importance of the…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 5/19/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgments



Politicizing Culture: Suspicious Minds



Seeing Red: The Stigma



Assenting: The Trend of Ideology



Praying: God Bless America



Informing: Many Are Called



Reeling: The Politics of Film



Boxed-In: Television and the Press



Dissenting: Pity the Land



Thawing: A Substitute for Victory


Epilogue


Bibliographical Essay


Index