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Cold War

 

Boyle, Ryan, “A Red Moon over the Mall: The Sputnik Panic and Domestic America,” Journal of American Culture, 31 (Dec. 2008), 373–82.

Gorczyca, Robert, “Sound and Fury: The Sedition Trial of Communist Steve Nelson,” Western Pennsylvania History, 91 (Summer 2008), 44–55. Heavily illustrated.

Masco, Joseph, “‘Survival Is Your Business’: Engineering Ruins and Affect in Nuclear America,” Cultural Anthropology, 23 (May 2008), 361–98.

 

Howell, Buddy Wayne, “The Rhetoric of Presidential Summit Diplomacy: Ronald Reagan and the U.S.-Soviet Summits, 1985–1988” (Texas A&M University, 2006). Order No. DA3296402.

Keith, Joseph, “Cold War Cosmopolitanisms: Radical Transnationalisms in the Shadow of U.S. Empire, 1945–1955” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3299334.

Steck, Stuart Y., “Veiling the Subject: Ellsworth Kelly and the Discourses of Modernism” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3298698.

Williams, Deborah Maureen, “Building the Perfect Citizen: Gender and Patriotism in Early Cold War America” (Temple University, 2007). Order No. DA3293267.

 

May, Elaine Tyler, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. (New York: Basic, 2008. xiv, 302 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-465-01020-2.) Twentieth anniversary edition with a new epilogue.

Spear, Sheldon, Daniel J. Flood: A Biography; The Congressional Career of an Economic Savior and Cold War Nationalist. (Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2008. 190 pp. $44.50, isbn 978-0-9801496-0-9.)

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