
Rethinking Cold War Culture
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By examining popular culture, politics, economics, gender relations, and civil rights, the contributors contend that, while there was little fundamentally new about American culture in the Cold War era, the Cold War shaped and distorted virtually every aspect of American life. Interacting with long-term historical trends related to demographics, technological change, and economic cycles, four new elements dramatically influenced American politics and culture: the threat of nuclear annihilation, the use of surrogate and covert warfare, the intensification of anticommunist ideology, and the rise of a powerful military-industrial complex.
This provocative dialogue by leading historians promises to reshape readers' understanding of America during the Cold War, revealing a complex interplay of historical norms and political influences.
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James Gilbert is Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Maryland and author of Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science (1997).
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: U.S. Culture and the Cold War: Peter J. Kuznick and James Gilbert
- Chapter 1: America's Children in an Era of War, Hot and Cold: The Holocaust, the Bomb, and Child Rearing in the 1940s: William M. Tuttle Jr.
- Chapter 2: Cold War Workers, Cold War Communities: Ann Markusen
- Chapter 3: The Illusion of Unity in Cold War Culture: Alan Brinkley
- Chapter 4: "We'll Follow the Old Man": The Strains of Sentimental Militarism in Popular Films of the Fifties: Christian G. Appy
- Chapter 5: Sex, Gender, and the Cold War Language of Reform: Joanne Meyerowitz
- Chapter 6: Containment at Home: Gender, Sexuality, and National Identity in Cold War America: Jane Sherron De Hart
- Chapter 7: "Cold War Culture" Doesn't Say It All: Peter Filene
- Chapter 8: Still the Best Catch There Is: Joseph Heller's Catch-22: Stephen J. Whitfield
- Chapter 9: Will the Sixties Never End? Or Perhaps at Least the Thirties? Or Maybe Even the Progressive Era?: Contrarian Thoughts on Change and Continuity in American Political Culture at the Turn of the Millennium: Leo P. Ribuffo
- Contributors
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