title: The Culture of the Cold War (The American Moment)
author:  Stephen J. Whitfield 
description: <P>"A lively and well-documented account of how the Cold War both produced and was sustained by super-patriotism, intolerance and suspicion, and how these pathologies infected all aspects of American life in the 1950sentertainment, churches, schools. Older readers will remember and still be amazed; younger ones will find this a readable introduction to a bizarre aspect of the American past."</P> (<i>Foreign Affairs, reviewing the first edition</i>)
zlib_text: Andrea Carosso
  Cold War
  Narratives:
  American Culture in the 1950s
  Cold War
  Narratives:
  American Culture in the 1950s
  Peter Lang
  Andrea Carosso   Cold War Narratives: American Culture in the 1950s
  Cold War Narratives reveals the power that representations, understood as both 
  cultural production and public discourse, have held in shaping the imaginaries of 
  early Cold War America. By engaging conﬂ icting accounts of the 1950s as either 
  afﬁ rmations of a prosperous and conﬁ dent nation ( in TV shows, popular sociology, 
  and advertising ) or as critiques of a society in the throes of fear, rebelliousness, 
  and inequality ( in ﬁ lm, literature, and media ), this study sheds new light on the 
  ambivalent imaginaries of the American 1950s.
  Pitting visions of the Red Scare and of nuclear proliferation against narratives of 
  an upbeat nation, eager to suburbanize and to adopt the new ethics of televised 
  consensus, Cold War Narratives illustrates how America’s leading metaphors of 
  conformity 