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Pressing the Fight Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War / edited by Greg Barnhisel and Catherine Turner.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
- Studies in print culture and the history of the book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Propaganda, Anti-communist.
- Propaganda, International.
- Politics and literature.
- Popular culture and literature--History--20th century.
- Popular culture and literature.
- Book industries and trade--History--20th century.
- Book industries and trade.
- Publishers and publishing--Political aspects.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Cold War--Social aspects.
- Cold War.
- Cold War--Political aspects.
- Press and propaganda--History--20th century.
- Press and propaganda.
- Book industries and trade--Political aspects.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Although often framed as an economic, military, and diplomatic confrontation, the Cold War was above all a conflict of ideas.In official pronouncements and publications as well as via radio broadcasts, television, and film, the United States and the Soviet Union both sought to extend their global reach as much through the power of persuasion as.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Greg Barnhisel and Catherine Turner
- Printing from left to right. The medium, the message, the movement : print culture and new left politics / Kristin Mathews
- The education of a Cold War conservative : anti-communist literature of the 1950s and 1960s / Laura Jane Gifford
- Establishing a beachhead. Literature and reeducation in occupied Germany, 1945-1949 / Christian Kanig
- Democratic bookshelf : American libraries in occupied Japan / Hiromi Ochi
- The British Information Research Department and Cold War propaganda publishing / James B. Smith
- Books for the world : American book programs in the developing world, 1948-1968 / Amanda Laugesen
- Impact of propaganda materials in free world countries / Martin Manning
- Print as a tool to shape domestic attitudes. "How can I tell my grandchildren what I did in the Cold War?" : militarizing the funny pages and Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon / Edward Brunner
- Pineapple glaze and backyard luaus : Cold War cookbooks and the fiftieth state / Amy Reddinger
- Mediating revolution : travel literature and the Vietnam War / Scott Laderman
- The cultural Cold War in the United States and abroad. Promoting literature in the most dangerous area in the world : the Cold War, the boom, and mundo nuevo / Russell Cobb
- "Truth, freedom, perfection" : Alfred Barr's What is modern painting? as Cold War rhetoric / Patricia Hills.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781613760567
- 1613760566
- OCLC:
- 794700504
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