
The Culture of the Cold War
Stephen J. Whitfield(Author)
Johns Hopkins University Press
2nd Edition
Published on 14. July 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-8018-5195-7 (ISBN)
Description
"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 Cold War to our national identity and forces the reader to ask, Where do we go from here? The question is especially crucial for the Cold War historian, Whitfield argues. His new epilogue is partly a guide for new historians to tackle the complexities of Cold War studies.
Reviews / Votes
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 editionMore details
Series
Edition
second edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
395 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-5195-7 (9780801851957)
DOI
10.56021/9780801851964
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Stephen J. Whitfield is Max Richter Chair in American Civilization at Brandeis University. He is the author of A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till and A Critical American: The Politics of Dwight Macdonald
Content
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Politicizing Culture: Suspicious Minds
Chapter 2. Seeing Red: The Stigma
Chapter 3. Assenting: The Trend of Ideology
Chapter 4. Praying: God Bless America
Chapter 5. Informing: Many Are Called
Chapter 6. Reeling: The Politics of Film
Chapter 7. Boxed-In: Television and the Press
Chapter 8. Dissenting: Pity the Land
Chapter 9. Thawing: A Substitute for Victory
Epilogue
Bibliographical Essay
Index
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Politicizing Culture: Suspicious Minds
Chapter 2. Seeing Red: The Stigma
Chapter 3. Assenting: The Trend of Ideology
Chapter 4. Praying: God Bless America
Chapter 5. Informing: Many Are Called
Chapter 6. Reeling: The Politics of Film
Chapter 7. Boxed-In: Television and the Press
Chapter 8. Dissenting: Pity the Land
Chapter 9. Thawing: A Substitute for Victory
Epilogue
Bibliographical Essay
Index