LEADER 05497nam 2200961 450 001 996248010403316 005 20210525024032.0 010 $a1-4008-4355-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400843558 035 $a(CKB)1000000000548137 035 $a(dli)HEB04378 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000083957 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11116193 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000083957 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10164145 035 $a(PQKB)10030788 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6326286 035 $a(DE-B1597)571596 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400843558 035 $a(OCoLC)1202623874 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000548137 100 $a20210120d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCivil defense begins at home $emilitarization meets everyday life in the fifties /$fLaura McEnaney 210 1$aPrinceton, New Jersey :$cPrinceton University Press,$d[2000] 210 4$dİ2000 215 $a1 online resource (x, 213 p. )$cill. ; 225 0 $aPolitics and Society in Modern America ;$v6 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-691-00138-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [195]-207) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tCHAPTER ONE. The Dilemmas of Planning and Propaganda --$tCHAPTER TWO. Living Underground: The Public Politics of Private Shelters --$tCHAPTER THREE. The Nuclear Family: Militarizing Domesticity, Domesticating War --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Raising Women?s Bomb Consciousness --$tCHAPTER FIVE. ?Equal in Suffering?: Race, Class, and the Bomb --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aDad built a bomb shelter in the backyard, Mom stocked the survival kit in the basement, and the kids practiced ducking under their desks at school. This was family life in the new era of the A-bomb. This was civil defense. In this provocative work of social and political history, Laura McEnaney takes us into the secretive world of defense planners and the homes of ordinary citizens to explore how postwar civil defense turned the front lawn into the front line. The reliance on atomic weaponry as a centerpiece of U.S. foreign policy cast a mushroom cloud over everyday life. American citizens now had to imagine a new kind of war, one in which they were both combatants and targets. It was the Federal Civil Defense Administration's job to encourage citizens to adapt to their nuclear present and future. As McEnaney demonstrates, the creation of a civil defense program produced new dilemmas about the degree to which civilian society should be militarized to defend itself against internal and external threats. Conflicts arose about the relative responsibilities of state and citizen to fund and implement a home-front security program. The defense establishment's resolution was to popularize and privatize military preparedness. The doctrine of "self-help" defense demanded that citizens become autonomous rather than rely on the federal government for protection. Families would reconstitute themselves as paramilitary units that could quash subversion from within and absorb attack from without. Because it solicited an unprecedented degree of popular involvement, the FCDA offers a unique opportunity to explore how average citizens, community leaders, and elected officials both participated in and resisted the creation of the national security state. Drawing on a wide variety of archival sources, McEnaney uncovers the broad range of responses to this militarization of daily life and reveals how government planners and ordinary people negotiated their way at the dawn of the atomic age. Her work sheds new light on the important postwar debate about what total military preparedness would actually mean for American society. 410 0$aACLS Humanities E-Book. 606 $aCivil defense$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aAdvertising Council. 610 $aAmerican Legion. 610 $aBlue Book. 610 $aBrown, Jeanetta. 610 $aCongress of Racial Equality. 610 $aCrosby, Bing. 610 $aEbony. 610 $aFederal Civil Defense Act. 610 $aGaither Committee. 610 $aGrandma?s Pantry. 610 $aHickey, Margaret. 610 $aHoughton, Dorothy. 610 $aImpelletteri, Vincent. 610 $aKassalow, Everett. 610 $aKorean War. 610 $aLaGuardia, Fiorello. 610 $aLapp, Ralph. 610 $aMitchell, Clarence. 610 $aNew Look. 610 $aOperation Alert. 610 $aParade. 610 $aPowner family. 610 $aProject Hideaway. 610 $aRandolph, A. Philip. 610 $aRoosevelt, Eleanor. 610 $aSputnik. 610 $aTerrell, Mary Church. 610 $aWarden Service. 610 $aWomen in Civil Defense. 610 $adomestication. 610 $aduck and cover. 610 $afeminine mystique. 610 $amaternalism. 615 0$aCivil defense 676 $a363.3/5/097309045 700 $aMcEnaney$b Laura$f1960-$01008251 712 02$aAmerican Council of Learned Societies. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248010403316 996 $aCivil defense begins at home$92325137 997 $aUNISA