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

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wiener, Jon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.
Temas:
1900-1999
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.
Politique et culture > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Guerre froide > Historiographie.
Guerre froide > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Mémoire collective > États-Unis.
Politique mondiale > 1945-1989.
Conservatisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Collective memory
Conservatism
Historiography
Intellectual life
Politics and culture
Social aspects
World politics
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Forgetting the Cold War; PART ONE: THE END; 1 Hippie Day at the Reagan Library; 2 The Victims of Communism Museum: A Study in Failure; PART TWO: THE BEGINNING: 1946-1949; 3 Getting Started: The Churchill Memorial in Missouri; 4 Searching for the Pumpkin Patch: The Whittaker Chambers National Historic Landmark; 5 Naming Names, from Laramie to Beverly Hills; 6 Secrets on Display: The CIA Museum and the NSA Museum; 7 Cold War Cleanup: The Hanford Tour; PART THREE: THE 1950S; 8 Test Site Tourism in Nevada.
  • 9 Memorial Day in Lakewood and La Jolla: Korean War Monuments of California10 Code Name "Ethel": The Rosenbergs in the Museums; 11 Mound Builders of Missouri: Nuclear Waste at Weldon Spring; 12 Cold War Elvis: Sgt. Presley at the General George Patton Museum; PART FOUR: THE 1960S AND AFTER; 13 The Graceland of Cold War Tourism: The Greenbrier Bunker; 14 Ike's Emmy: Monuments to the Military-Industrial Complex; 15 The Fallout Shelters of North Dakota; 16 "It Had to Do with Cuba and Missiles": Thirteen Days in October; 17 The Museum of the Missile Gap: Arizona's Titan Missile Museum.
  • 18 The Museum of Détente: The Nixon Library in Yorba LindaPART FIVE: ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES; 19 Rocky Flats: Uncovering the Secrets; 20 CNN's Cold War: Equal Time for the Russians; 21 Harry Truman's Amazing Museum; Conclusion: History, Memory, and the Cold War; Epilogue: From the Cold War to the War in Iraq; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.

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