Russians Are Coming! the Russians Are Coming! Pageantry and Patriotism in Cold-War America

Name: Russians Are Coming! the Russians Are Coming! Pageantry and Patriotism in Cold-War America
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ISBN: 9780195134179

ISBN-10: 0195134176

ISBN-13: 9780195134179

Edition: 1998

Authors: Richard M. Fried

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This book explores a widely lived yet little remembered facet of America's cultural and political history: the Cold War as experienced at the grassroots level. Here, Fried traces the cresting of modern patriotic observance during World War II and then shows how patriotic and civic activists afterwards labored to recreate a remembered unity and commitment in the tension-filled Cold War era. A variety of national and local entities mounted campaigns "to sell America to the Americans" through "rededication" celebrations like Know Your America Week and Freedom Week. The American Heritage Foundation wheeled out the Freedom Train, which carried seminal documents of the nation's past to railroad…

Book details

List price: $83.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/12/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.39" wide x 8.19" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Patriotic Pageantry in America



Wake Up, America: Origins of Modern Patriotism



Precious Freight: The Freedom Train



Capturing the Streets for Loyalty



Springtime for Stalin in Mosinee



"The Cold War Belongs to Us All": Patriotizing the American Calendar



The Cornwallises Send Regrets: Historical Commemoration in the 1950s



Patriotic Gore



"Shame on Them": The Decline of Cold War Pageantry


Conclusion


Notes


Manuscript Sources


Index