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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827026103321

Autore

Fried Richard M (Richard Mayer), <1941->

Titolo

The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming! : pageantry and patriotism in Cold-War America / / Richard M. Fried

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-771716-0

1-280-47313-4

0-19-802348-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

973.92

Soggetti

Cold War - Social aspects - United States

Political culture - United States - History - 20th century

Patriotism - United States - History - 20th century

Pageants - United States - History - 20th century

Anti-communist movements - United States - History

United States Civilization 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-210) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Patriotic Pageantry in America; 1 Wake Up, America: Origins of Modern Patriotism; 2 Precious Freight: The Freedom Train; 3 Capturing the Streets for Loyalty; 4 Springtime for Stalin in Mosinee; 5 ""The Cold War Belongs to Us All"": Patriotizing the American Calendar; 6 The Cornwallises Send Regrets: Historical Commemoration in the 1950s; 7 Patriotic Gore; 8 ""Shame on Them"": The Decline of Cold War Pageantry; Conclusion; Notes; Manuscript Sources; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Historian Richard Fried, author of Nightmare in Red, ploughs new ground with this exploration of the often absurd lengths the average ctitizen in McCarthyite America went to help shore up patriotism and fend off the threat of the Red Menace.