Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War
Author: Cuordileone, Kyle A. Cuordileone
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 282
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Cuordileone, Kyle A. Cuordileone
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 282
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: K.A. Cuordileone
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-11-12
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 113605510X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War explores the meaning of anxiety as expressed through the political and cultural language of the early cold war era. Cuordileone shows how the preoccupation with the soft, malleable American character reflected not only anti-Communism but acute anxieties about manhood and sexuality. Reading major figures like Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Adlai Stevenson, Joseph McCarthy, Norman Mailer, JFK, and many lesser known public figures, Cuordileone reveals how the era’s cult of toughness shaped the political dynamics of the time and inspired a reinvention of the liberal as a cold warrior.
Author: Kyle Cuordileone
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780415926003
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christian G. Appy
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 356
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of 11 papers which share the common goal of addressing the connections between domestic political culture and U.S. Cold War foreign policy. Appy (formerly history, Massachusetts Institute of Technology brings together the work of political, diplomatic, and cultural historians in order to foster an understanding of the complex interaction between culture and policy. Topics treated include the discourse of adoption and the Cold War commitment in Asia; class, caste, and status in Indo-American relations; The propaganda efforts of the United States in the disruption of the 1948 Italian elections; Cold War racial ideology; Time magazine's propaganda aid in the CIA's overthrow of Musaddiq (Mossadegh); and the identification of significant portions of the American populace with pro-Fidelista forces in the 1950s. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Joanne P. Sharp
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781452904467
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert D. Dean
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9781613760802
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An analysis of how culture, class and gender shaped American foreign policy during the Cold War. The author examines the institutions that shaped the members of the US foreign policy establishment, including all-male prep schools and Ivy-League universities.
Author: Robert J. Corber
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1997-05-22
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 082238244X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert J. Corber argues that a form of gay male identity emerged in the 1950s that simultaneously drew on and transcended left-wing opposition to the Cold War cultural and political consensus. Combining readings of novels, plays, and films of the period with historical research into the national security state, the growth of the suburbs, and postwar consumer culture, Corber examines how gay men resisted the "organization man" model of masculinity that rose to dominance in the wake of World War II. By exploring the representation of gay men in film noir, Corber suggests that even as this Hollywood genre reinforced homophobic stereotypes, it legitimized the gay male "gaze." He emphasizes how film noir’s introduction of homosexual characters countered the national "project" to render gay men invisible, and marked a deep subversion of the Cold War mentality. Corber then considers the work of gay male writers Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, and James Baldwin, demonstrating how these authors declined to represent homosexuality as a discrete subculture and instead promoted a model of political solidarity rooted in the shared experience of oppression. Homosexuality in Cold War America reveals that the ideological critique of the dominant culture made by gay male authors of the 1950s laid the foundation for the gay liberation movement of the following decade.
Author: Peter J. Kuznick
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: 2010-06-22
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1560988959
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This anthology of essays questions many widespread assumptions about the culture of postwar America. Illuminating the origins and development of the many threads that constituted American culture during the Cold War, the contributors challenge the existence of a monolithic culture during the 1950s and thereafter. They demonstrate instead that there was more to American society than conformity, political conservatism, consumerism, and middle-class values. 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.
Author: Stephen J. Whitfield
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1996-05-19
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0801851963
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Andrew D. Grossman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1135956073
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From Bomb shelters and air raid drills to the Cold War rhetoric that justified everything from the interstate highway system to CIA wiretaps, Neither Dead Nor Read provides a fascinating glimpse at life in Cold War America.