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Pressing the fight : print, propaganda, and the Cold War
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- Creator
- edited by Greg Barnhisel and Catherine Turner
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- vi, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 1613760566, 9781613760567, 9781558497368, 1558497366
- OCLC
- ocn368048049, ocn794700504
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Book industries and trade -- Political aspects.
- Press and propaganda -- History -- 20th century.
- Cold War -- Political aspects.
- Cold War -- Social aspects.
- Publishers and publishing -- Political aspects.
- Book industries and trade -- History -- 20th century.
- Popular culture and literature -- History -- 20th century.
- Politics and literature.
- Propaganda, International.
- Propaganda, Anti-communist.