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9780700609284

The Cold War Comes to Main Street: America in 1950

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  • ISBN13:

    9780700609284

  • ISBN10:

    0700609288

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-01-01
  • Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas
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In 1950, Main Street American was abruptly traumatized. The sudden prospect of thermonuclear war with the Soviet Union, Senator McCarthy's vicious anticommunist crusade, and the beginning of the Korean War all combined to dampen the public mood. The Cold War invaded every home. Rose maintains that 1950 was a pivotal year for the nation. He argues that the convergence of Korea, McCarthy, and the bomb wounded the nation in ways from which we've never fully recovered. Brimming with originality, this book makes readers look at the Cold War from a dozen different angles.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
INTRODUCTION 1(6)
1. Liberals
7(15)
2. The Red Menace
22(17)
3. Conservatives
39(25)
4. The Bomb
64(53)
5. McCarthyism
117(49)
6. The Guns of Summer
166(41)
7. The Politics of Hysteria
207(16)
8. Hubris
223(39)
9. Disaster
262(49)
EPILOGUE 311(20)
NOTES 331(40)
BIBLIOGRAPHY 371(16)
INDEX 387

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