One nation underground [[electronic resource] ] : the fallout shelter in American culture / / Kenneth D. Rose
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| Autore: |
Rose Kenneth D (Kenneth David), <1946->
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| Titolo: |
One nation underground [[electronic resource] ] : the fallout shelter in American culture / / Kenneth D. Rose
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : New York University Press, c2001 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (323 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 303.6/6 |
| Soggetto topico: | Fallout shelters - Social aspects - United States |
| Nuclear warfare - Social aspects - United States | |
| Cold War - Social aspects - United States | |
| Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Social conditions 1945- |
| Soggetto non controllato: | 1960s |
| American | |
| Cold | |
| backyard | |
| challenges | |
| countrys | |
| during | |
| early | |
| expectation | |
| fallout | |
| height | |
| preoccupation | |
| reveals | |
| self-image | |
| shelters | |
| social | |
| troubling | |
| with | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 A New Age Dawning; 2 The Nuclear Apocalyptic; 3 Morality and National Identity at the Shelter Door; 4 Taking Government, Business, and Schools Underground; 5 The Theory and Practice of Armageddon; 6 The Shelters That Were Not Built, the Nuclear War That Did Not Start; Postscript; Notes; Index; About the Author |
| Sommario/riassunto: | For the half-century duration of the Cold War, the fallout shelter was a curiously American preoccupation. Triggered in 1961 by a hawkish speech by John F. Kennedy, the fallout shelter controversy-""to dig or not to dig,"" as Business Week put it at the time-forced many Americans to grapple with deeply disturbing dilemmas that went to the very heart of their self-image about what it meant to be an American, an upstanding citizen, and a moral human being. Given the much-touted nuclear threat throughout the 1960's and the fact that 4 out of 5 Americans expressed a preference for nuclear war over |
| Titolo autorizzato: | One nation underground |
| ISBN: | 0-8147-6919-5 |
| 0-8147-7678-7 | |
| 0-585-48059-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780225603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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American history and culture (New York University Press)