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9780226511764

Recasting America: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cold War

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  • ISBN13:

    9780226511764

  • ISBN10:

    0226511766

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1988-11-15
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

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"The freshness of the authors' approaches . . . is salutary. . . . The collection is stimulating and valuable."--Joan Shelley Rubin, Journal of American History

Table of Contents

Introduction
Toward a Theory of Postwar America
Did Success Spoil the United States? Dual Representations in Postwar America Warren Sussman, with the assistance of
A Matter of Taste: Corporate Cultural Hegemony in a Mass-Consumption Society
The Intellectual Reorientation
The Reconstruction of Progress: Charles Beard, Richard Hofstadter, and Postwar Historical Thought
The Politics of Social Science in Postwar America
A Life of Learning
The Making of Cold War Culture
Gideon's Trumpet: Sounding the Retreat from Legal Realism
Movie Star Politics: The Screen Actors' Guild, Cultural Conversion, and the Hollywood Red Scare
Explosive Issues: Sex, Women, and the Bomb
Ranch-House Suburbia: Ideals and Realities
The Search for Alternatives: Art, Minorities, and Popular Culture
The Art of Cultural Politics: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism
Things to Come: Swing Bands, Bebop, and the Rise of a Postwar Jazz Scene
To the Battle Royal: Ralph Ellison and the Quest for Black Leadership in Postwar America
Land of a Thousand Dances: Youth, Minorities, and the Rise of Rock and Roll
The Irony of American Culture Abroad: Austria and the Cold War
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