While America watches : televising the Holocaust / Jeffrey Shandler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shandler, Jeffrey, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), on television.

Television broadcasting--United States.

Television broadcasting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

America's struggle against Nazism is one of the few aspects of World War II that has escaped controversy. Historians agree that it was a widely popular war, different from the subsequent conflicts in Korea and Vietnam because of the absence of partisan sniping, ebbing morale, or calls for a negotiated peace. In this provocative book, Steven Casey challenges conventional wisdom about America's participation in World War II. Drawing on the numerous opinion polls and surveys conducted by the U.S. government, he traces the development of elite and mass attitudes toward Germany, from the early days

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Image as Witness; 2. ""This Is Your Life""; 3. The Theater of Our Century; 4. The Man in the Glass Box; 5. A Guest in the Wasteland; 6. The Big Event; 7. The Rise of the Survivor; 8. The Master Paradigm; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-306) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771790-X

1-280-48120-X

0-19-802804-0

OCLC:

475956175