LEADER 03959nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910787526103321 005 20220305005152.0 010 $a0-8122-0123-X 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201239 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418289 035 $a(EBL)3442168 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001101441 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11599541 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001101441 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11067926 035 $a(PQKB)10169196 035 $a(OCoLC)756583473 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26719 035 $a(DE-B1597)448977 035 $a(OCoLC)979630800 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201239 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442168 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748594 035 $a(OCoLC)859161054 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442168 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418289 100 $a20080307h20102008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSelling the American way$b[electronic resource] $eU.S. propaganda and the Cold War /$fLaura A. Belmonte 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$d[2010], c2008 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8122-2119-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [187]-241) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAbbreviations --$tChronology --$tIntroduction --$tChapter One. The Truman Years --$tChapter Two. The Eisenhower Years --$tChapter Three. Defining Democracy: Images Of The American Political System --$tChapter Four. Selling Capitalism: Images Of The Economy, Labor, And Consumerism --$tChapter Five. "The Red Target Is Your Home": Images Of Gender And The Family --$tChapter Six. ''A Lynching Should Be Reported Without Comment": Images Of Race Relations --$tConclusion: The Costs And Limits Of Selling ''America" --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn 1955, the United States Information Agency published a lavishly illustrated booklet called My America. Assembled ostensibly to document "the basic elements of a free dynamic society," the booklet emphasized cultural diversity, political freedom, and social mobility and made no mention of McCarthyism or the Cold War. Though hyperbolic, My America was, as Laura A. Belmonte shows, merely one of hundreds of pamphlets from this era written and distributed in an organized attempt to forge a collective defense of the "American way of life."Selling the American Way examines the context, content, and reception of U.S. propaganda during the early Cold War. Determined to protect democratic capitalism and undercut communism, U.S. information experts defined the national interest not only in geopolitical, economic, and military terms. Through radio shows, films, and publications, they also propagated a carefully constructed cultural narrative of freedom, progress, and abundance as a means of protecting national security. Not simply a one-way look at propaganda as it is produced, the book is a subtle investigation of how U.S. propaganda was received abroad and at home and how criticism of it by Congress and successive presidential administrations contributed to its modification. 606 $aPropaganda, American$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aNationalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCold War 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1945-1953 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1953-1961 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 615 0$aPropaganda, American$xHistory 615 0$aNationalism$xHistory 615 0$aCold War. 676 $a973.918 700 $aBelmonte$b Laura A$0713617 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787526103321 996 $aSelling the American way$91329452 997 $aUNINA