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How we forgot the Cold War : a historical journey across America / / Jon Wiener



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Autore: Wiener Jon Visualizza persona
Titolo: How we forgot the Cold War : a historical journey across America / / Jon Wiener Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
Disciplina: 973.91
Soggetto topico: Politics and culture - United States - History - 20th century
Cold War - Historiography
Cold War - Social aspects - United States
Collective memory - United States
World politics - 1945-1989
Conservatism - United States - History - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: United States Intellectual life 20th century
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Forgetting the Cold War -- PART ONE. THE END -- PART TWO. THE BEGINNING: 1946-1949 -- PART THREE. THE 1950's -- PART FOUR: THE 1960's AND AFTER -- PART FIVE. ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES -- Conclusion: History, Memory, and the Cold War -- Epilogue: From the Cold War to the War in Iraq -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Hours after the USSR collapsed in 1991, Congress began making plans to establish the official memory of the Cold War. Conservatives dominated the proceedings, spending millions to portray the conflict as a triumph of good over evil and a defeat of totalitarianism equal in significance to World War II. In this provocative book, historian Jon Wiener visits Cold War monuments, museums, and memorials across the United States to find out how the era is being remembered. The author's journey provides a history of the Cold War, one that turns many conventional notions on their heads. In an engaging travelogue that takes readers to sites such as the life-size recreation of Berlin's "Checkpoint Charlie" at the Reagan Library, the fallout shelter display at the Smithsonian, and exhibits about "Sgt. Elvis," America's most famous Cold War veteran, Wiener discovers that the Cold War isn't being remembered. It's being forgotten. Despite an immense effort, the conservatives' monuments weren't built, their historic sites have few visitors, and many of their museums have now shifted focus to other topics. Proponents of the notion of a heroic "Cold War victory" failed; the public didn't buy the official story. Lively, readable, and well-informed, this book expands current discussions about memory and history, and raises intriguing questions about popular skepticism toward official ideology.
Titolo autorizzato: How we forgot the Cold War  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-00302-3
9786613823212
0-520-95425-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819074803321
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