One Nation Underground

The Fallout Shelter in American Culture

Autor: Kenneth D. Rose

Jazyk:

Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele

Odesíláme za 14-21 dnů

986 Kč

For the half-century duration of the Cold War, the fallout shelter was a curiously American preoccup...

Informace o knize

Autor

Kenneth D. Rose

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2004

Stránek

324

EAN

9780814775233

ISBN

0814775233

Enbook ID

04932359

Vydavatel

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Hmotnost

448

Rozměry

151 x 229 x 18

Kompletní popis

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 1960s and the fact that 4 out of 5 Americans expressed a preference for nuclear war over living under communism, what's perhaps most striking is how few American actually built backyard shelters. Tracing the ways in which the fallout shelter became an icon of popular culture, Kenneth D. Rose also investigates the troubling issues the shelters raised: Would a post-war world even be worth living in? Would shelter construction send the Soviets a message of national resolve, or rather encourage political and military leaders to think in terms of a "winnable" war? Investigating the role of schools, television, government bureaucracies, civil defense, and literature, and rich in fascinating detail--including a detailed tour of the vast fallout shelter in Greenbriar, Virginia, built to harbor the entire United States Congress in the event of nuclear armageddon--One Nation, Underground goes to the very heart of America's Cold War experience.

Mohlo by vás zajímat

Zákaznicí kteří koupili tuto knihu koupili také

Nejčastěji hledané

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produkty

Produkty

Nejčastěji hledané

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produkty

Produkty

One Nation Underground

The Fallout Shelter in American Culture

Informace o knize

Kompletní popis

Mohlo by vás zajímat

Zákaznicí kteří koupili tuto knihu koupili také