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The Culture of the Cold War

Paperback • 1996 • English

The Culture of the Cold War

By Stephen J. Whitfield

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About the book

"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...Show more

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ISBN

9780801851957

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Published year

1996

Language

English

Original title

The Culture of the Cold War

Format

Paperback

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