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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen J Whitfield |
| ISBN: | 0801851963 9780801851964 0801851955 9780801851957 |
| OCLC Number: | 476282261 |
| Description: | viii, 275 s |
| Contents: | ForewordAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Politicizing Culture: Suspicious MindsChapter 2. Seeing Red: The StigmaChapter 3. Assenting: The Trend of IdeologyChapter 4. Praying: God Bless AmericaChapter 5. Informing: Many Are CalledChapter 6. Reeling: The Politics of FilmChapter 7. Boxed-In: Television and the PressChapter 8. Dissenting: Pity the LandChapter 9. Thawing: A Substitute for VictoryEpilogueBibliographical EssayIndex |
| Series Title: | American moment |
| Responsibility: | Stephen J. Whitfield. |
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A lively and well-documented account of how the Cold War both produced and was sustained by super-patriotism, intolerance and suspicion, and how these pathologies infected all aspects of American life in the 1950s-entertainment, churches, schools. Older readers will remember and still be amazed; younger ones will find this a readable introduction to a bizarre aspect of the American past. Foreign Affairs, reviewing the first edition Read more...
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