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100 1 |a Belmonte, Laura A. 
245 1 0 |a Selling the American Way :   |b U.S. Propaganda and the Cold War /   |c Laura A. Belmonte. 
264 1 |a Philadelphia :  |b University of Pennsylvania Press,  |c [2010], 2008. 
264 3 |a Baltimore, Md. :  |b Project MUSE,   |c 2014 
264 4 |c ©[2010], 2008. 
300 |a 1 online resource (272 pages):   |b illustrations 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
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505 0 |a Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Truman Years -- Chapter Two: The Eisenhower Years -- Chapter Three: Defining Democracy: Images of the American Political System -- Chapter Four: Selling Capitalism: Images of the Economy, Labor, and Consumerism -- Chapter Five: The Red Target is Your Home: Images of Gender and the Family -- Chapter Six: ''A Lynching Should Be Reported Without Comment: Images of Race Relations 
505 0 |a Conclusion: The Costs and Limits of Selling AmericaNotes -- Index -- Acknowledgments 
520 8 |a Annotation  |b In 1955, the United States Information Agency published a lavishly illustrated booklet called My America. Assembled ostensibly to document "the basic elements of a free dynamic society," the booklet emphasized cultural diversity, political freedom, and social mobility and made no mention of McCarthyism or the Cold War. Though hyperbolic, My America was, as Laura A. Belmonte shows, merely one of hundreds of pamphlets from this era written and distributed in an organized attempt to forge a collective defense of the "American way of life."Selling the American Way examines the context, content, and reception of U.S. propaganda during the early Cold War. Determined to protect democratic capitalism and undercut communism, U.S. information experts defined the national interest not only in geopolitical, economic, and military terms. Through radio shows, films, and publications, they also propagated a carefully constructed cultural narrative of freedom, progress, and abundance as a means of protecting national security. Not simply a one-way look at propaganda as it is produced, the book is a subtle investigation of how U.S. propaganda was received abroad and at home and how criticism of it by Congress and successive presidential administrations contributed to its modification. 
546 |a English. 
588 |a Description based on print version record. 
650 7 |a Propaganda, American.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01078968 
650 7 |a Nationalism.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01033832 
650 7 |a Diplomatic relations.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01907412 
650 6 |a Guerre froide. 
650 6 |a Nationalisme  |z États-Unis  |x Histoire  |y 20e siecle. 
650 6 |a Propagande americaine  |x Histoire  |y 20e siecle. 
650 0 |a Cold War. 
650 0 |a Nationalism  |z United States  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Propaganda, American  |x History  |y 20th century. 
651 7 |a United States.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 
651 6 |a États-Unis  |x Relations exterieures  |y 1953-1961. 
651 6 |a États-Unis  |x Relations exterieures  |y 1945-1953. 
651 0 |a United States  |x Foreign relations  |y 1953-1961. 
651 0 |a United States  |x Foreign relations  |y 1945-1953. 
655 7 |a History.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 
655 7 |a Electronic books.   |2 local 
710 2 |a Project Muse.  |e distributor 
830 0 |a Book collections on Project MUSE. 
856 4 0 |z Texto completo  |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/22071/ 
945 |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection 
945 |a Project MUSE - Archive Complete Supplement II 
945 |a Project MUSE - Archive History Supplement II 
945 |a Project MUSE - Archive American Studies Supplement