We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes

Andrew Hunt

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• In the moments before his weekly radio address hit the airwaves in 1984, Ronald Reagan made an off-the-record joke: "I've signed legislation that will... Lees meer

Beyond Vietnam

Robert Surbrug

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• Narratives of the 1960s typically describe an ascending arc of political activism that peaked in 1968, then began a precipitous descent as the revolut... Lees meer

Citizenship in Cold War America

Andrea Friedman

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• In the wake of 9/11, many Americans have deplored the dangers to liberty posed by a growing surveillance state. In this book, Andrea Friedman moves be... Lees meer

Where Is Juliet Stuart Poyntz?

Denise M Lynn

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• On a sweltering June evening in 1937, American Juliet Stuart Poyntz left her boardinghouse in Manhattan and walked toward Central Park, three short bl... Lees meer

Modernizing Repression

Jeremy Kuzmarov

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• As American troops became bogged down first in Iraq and then Afghanistan, a key component of U.S. strategy was to build up local police and security f... Lees meer

Upstaging the Cold War

Andrew J Falk

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• Traditional interpretations of the 1950s have emphasized how American anti-communists deployed censorship and the blacklist to silence dissent, partic... Lees meer

In Whose Eyes

Tran Van Thuy

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• Trn Van Thuy is a celebrated Vietnamese filmmaker of more than twenty award-winning documentaries. A cameraman for the People's Army of Vietnam during... Lees meer

Clearer Than Truth

John Philipp Baesler

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• A person strapped to a polygraph machine. Nervous eyes, sweaty brow, the needle trembling up and down. Few images are more evocative of Cold War paran... Lees meer

Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games

Heather L Dichter

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• Considers how NATO and its member states used sport as a diplomatic arena during the height of the Cold War, and how international sport responded to ... Lees meer

A Shadow on Our Hearts

Adam Gilbert

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• The American war in Vietnam was one of the most morally contentious events of the twentieth century, and it produced an extraordinary outpouring of po... Lees meer

Staging Growth

Nils Gilma, Mark H. Haefele

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• Beginning in the 1950s, the theory of modernization emerged as the dominant paradigm of economic, social, and political development within the America... Lees meer

Perfectly Average

Anna G Creadick

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• At the end of World War II, many Americans longed for a return to a more normal way of life after decades of depression and war. In fact, between 1945... Lees meer

Making the Desert Modern

Chad Parker

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• In 1933 American oilmen representing what later became the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) signed a concession agreement with the Saudi Arabian ... Lees meer

A Call to Conscience

Roger Peace

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• Unlike earlier U.S. interventions in Latin America, the Reagan administration's attempt to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua during the... Lees meer

Vietnam and Other American Fantasies

H Franklin, H Bruce Franklin

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• There is now fairly widespread acknowledgment that the Vietnam War shattered many of the traditional narratives central to formerly prevailing vision ... Lees meer

Nuclear Freeze in a Cold War

William M Knoblauch

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• By 1982 the Nuclear Freeze campaign had become the largest peace movement in American history. Recently declassified White House memoranda reveal a co... Lees meer

Making the Forever War

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• The late historian Marilyn B. Young, a preeminent voice on the history of U.S. military conflict, spent her career reassessing the nature of American ... Lees meer

My Brother's Keeper

Mark A Lempke

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• George McGovern is chiefly remembered for his landslide loss to Richard Nixon in 1972. Yet at the time, his candidacy raised eyebrows by invoking the ... Lees meer

The Sacking of Fallujah

Ross Caputi

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• The Iraqi city of Fallujah has become an epicenter of geopolitical conflict, where foreign powers and non-state actors have repeatedly waged war in re... Lees meer

Contested Ground

Mike Conway

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• The ascendance of television news in the 1960s as America’s top choice for information threatened the self-defined supremacy of print journalism. In... Lees meer

Vietnam's Southern Revolution

David Hunt

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• In Vietnam, the American government vowed to win the hearts and minds of the people. On the other side, among those who led and sympathized with the ... Lees meer

The Pro-War Movement

Sandra Scanlon

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• In the vast literature on the Vietnam War, much has been written about the antiwar movement and its influence on U.S. policy and politics. In this boo... Lees meer

Redefining Science

Paul Rubinson

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• The Cold War forced scientists to reconcile their values of internationalism and objectivity with the increasingly militaristic uses of scientific kno... Lees meer

Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique

Daniel Horowitz

• Paperback | Engels | Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
• Ever since the 1963 publication of her landmark book, The Feminine Mystique , Betty Friedan has insisted that her commitment to women's rights grew ou... Lees meer