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Liberty and justice for all? : rethinking politics in Cold War America / edited by Kathleen G. Donohue.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Culture, politics, and the cold war.
- Culture, Politics, and the Cold War
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Politics and culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Politics and culture.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- Political culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Political culture.
- Cold War--Influence.
- Cold War.
- Cold War--Social aspects--United States.
- United States--Civilization--1945-.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (402 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From the congressional debate over the "fall of China" to the drama of the Army-McCarthy hearings to the kitchen faceoff between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev, the political history of the early Cold War was long dominated by studies of presidential administrations, anticommunism, and foreign policy.In Liberty and Justice for All?.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I: Rethinking Mccarthyism and Cold War Anticommunism; Chapter 1: Access Denied: Anticommunism and the Public's Right to Know
- Chapter 2: Red Scare Politics and the Suppression of Left - Feminism: The Loyalty Investigation of Mary Dublin Keyserling Chapter 3: The Strange Career of Annie Lee Moss: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Mccarthyism; Chapter 4: "Fraud of Femininity": Domesticity, Selflessness, and Individualism in Responses to Betty Friedan
- Part II: Rethinking the Politics of Cold War Culture Chapter 1: The Disenchantment of America: Radical Echoes in 1950's Political Criticism; Chapter 2: A New Way of Campaigning: Eisenhower, Stevenson, and the Anxieties of Television Politics
- Chapter 3: The Irony of the Postwar Religious Revival: Catholics, Jews, and the Creation of the Naked Public Square Chapter 4: The Union of Folk Music and Left Politics: Pete Seeger in Cold War America; Part III: Rethinking the Cold War State and Economy
- Chapter 1: The Transformation of the Cold War State: From Welfare to Security Chapter 2: Nightmares on Elm Street: Demobilization in Chicago and the Politics of "Peace," 1945-1953; Chapter 3: The Politics of Economic Security after World War II; Chapter 4: Corporate Culture, the Cold War, and the American South in the 1950's and 1960's; Contributors; Index ; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-193-7
- OCLC:
- 786918426
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