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UNINA9910815297503321 |
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Autore |
Rose Kenneth D (Kenneth David), <1946-> |
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Titolo |
One nation underground : the fallout shelter in American culture / / Kenneth D. Rose |
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New York, : New York University Press, c2001 |
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0-8147-6919-5 |
0-8147-7678-7 |
0-585-48059-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (323 p.) |
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Collana |
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American history and culture |
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Soggetti |
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Fallout shelters - Social aspects - United States |
Nuclear warfare - Social aspects - United States |
Cold War - Social aspects - United States |
Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century |
United States Social conditions 1945- |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 A New Age Dawning; 2 The Nuclear Apocalyptic; 3 Morality and National Identity at the Shelter Door; 4 Taking Government, Business, and Schools Underground; 5 The Theory and Practice of Armageddon; 6 The Shelters That Were Not Built, the Nuclear War That Did Not Start; Postscript; Notes; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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For the half-century duration of the Cold War, the fallout shelter was a curiously American preoccupation. Triggered in 1961 by a hawkish speech by John F. Kennedy, the fallout shelter controversy-""to dig or not to dig,"" as Business Week put it at the time-forced many Americans to grapple with deeply disturbing dilemmas that went to the very heart of their self-image about what it meant to be an American, an upstanding citizen, and a moral human being. Given the much-touted nuclear threat throughout the 1960's and the fact that 4 out of 5 Americans expressed a preference for nuclear war over |
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