LEADER 03640oam 2200697I 450 001 9910786333303321 005 20230617023516.0 010 $a1-136-05510-X 010 $a1-283-84570-9 010 $a1-136-05502-9 010 $a0-203-61355-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203613559 035 $a(CKB)2670000000277266 035 $a(EBL)1075256 035 $a(OCoLC)821176001 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000783717 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11419088 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000783717 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10761301 035 $a(PQKB)10776496 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1075256 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1075256 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10628989 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL415820 035 $a(OCoLC)823726829 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB134127 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000277266 100 $a20180706d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aManhood and American political culture in the Cold War /$fK.A. Cuordileone 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2005. 215 $a1 online resource (313 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-92600-9 311 $a0-415-92599-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 247-272) and index. 327 $aManhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War; Copyright; Contents; Prologue; Chapter 1 Postwar Liberalism and the Crisis of Liberal Masculinity; "Politics in an Age of Anxiety"; Masculinity in Crisis?; Not Left, Not Right, but a Vital Center; Chapter 2 Anti-Communism on the Right: The Politics of Perversion; "Twenty Years of Treason"; Panic on the Potomac; Pinks, Lavenders, and Reds; Adelaide; Chapter 3 Conformity, Sexuality, and the Beleaguered Male Self of the 1950s; Imprisoned in Brotherhood; Manhood and Conformity; The Unmanning of American Men; The Flight from Masculinity 327 $aMust You Conform?Chapter 4 Reinventing the Liberal as Superman; Affluence and Its Discontents; Kennedy vs. Nixon; The Liberal as Playboy; The Cult of Toughness; The Counterinsurgent; Afterword; Notes; Index 330 $aManhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War explores the meaning of anxiety as expressed through the political and cultural language of the early cold war era. Cuordileone shows how the preoccupation with the soft, malleable American character reflected not only anti-Communism but acute anxieties about manhood and sexuality. Reading major figures like Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Adlai Stevenson, Joseph McCarthy, Norman Mailer, JFK, and many lesser known public figures, Cuordileone reveals how the era's cult of toughness shaped the political dynamics of the time and inspired 606 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLiberalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMasculinity$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSex role$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory 615 0$aLiberalism$xHistory 615 0$aMasculinity$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aSex role$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 676 $a306.2/0973/09045 700 $aCuordileone$b Kyle A.$f1959-,$01521960 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786333303321 996 $aManhood and American political culture in the Cold War$93761451 997 $aUNINA