Condensing the Cold War : Reader's digest and American identity / Joanne P. Sharp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharp, Joanne P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War--Press coverage--United States.

Cold War.

Reader's digest.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By examining the changing ways in which Reader's Digest has explained America and its relation to the world, Sharp exposes the links that the magazine has forged between the individual reader and the destiny of the United States, particularly as this relates to the Soviet Union, the Cold War enemy whose character the Digest is often credited with helping to create. Not about the Soviet Union per se, or about the historical details of any other threat to the United States, this is a book about America and the changing roles that this central voice of American mass culture envisioned for the cou

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ONE

Consumption, Discipline, and Democracy: The "New Magazines" and Reader's Digest

TWO

Reading the DigestWriting the World 24

THREE

Ambivalent Geography: Writing World Orders, 1922 to 1945 55

FOUR

The Beginnings of Cold War 83

FIVE

The Jeopardy of Detente 107

SIX

The "Second Cold War" 122

SEVEN

Denying Imperial Decline at the End of the Cold War 137

Conclusion 163

Appendix: Reader's Digest Readers: Demographic Profile, 1991 174.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-202) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9062-6

0-8166-5293-7

OCLC:

191948787