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Pressing the fight : print, propaganda, and the Cold War / edited by Greg Barnhisel and Catherine Turner.

Other author/creatorBarnhisel, Greg, 1969-
Other author/creatorTurner, Catherine, 1968-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoAmherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2010.
Descriptionvi, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Studies in print culture and the history of the book
Studies in print culture and the history of the book. ^A388034
Contents Introduction / Greg Barnhisel and Catherine Turner -- Printing from left to right. The medium, the message, the movement : print culture and new left politics / Kristin Mathews -- The education of a Cold War conservative : anti-communist literature of the 1950s and 1960s / Laura Jane Gifford -- Establishing a beachhead. Literature and reeducation in occupied Germany, 1945-1949 / Christian Kanig -- Democratic bookshelf : American libraries in occupied Japan / Hiromi Ochi -- The British Information Research Department and Cold War propaganda publishing / James B. Smith -- Books for the world : American book programs in the developing world, 1948-1968 / Amanda Laugesen -- Impact of propaganda materials in free world countries / Martin Manning -- Print as a tool to shape domestic attitudes. "How can I tell my grandchildren what I did in the Cold War?" : militarizing the funny pages and Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon / Edward Brunner -- Pineapple glaze and backyard luaus : Cold War cookbooks and the fiftieth state / Amy Reddinger -- Mediating revolution : travel literature and the Vietnam War / Scott Laderman -- The cultural Cold War in the United States and abroad. Promoting literature in the most dangerous area in the world : the Cold War, the boom, and mundo nuevo / Russell Cobb -- "Truth, freedom, perfection" : Alfred Barr's What is modern painting? as Cold War rhetoric / Patricia Hills.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009045926
ISBN9781558497368 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1558497366 (cloth : alk. paper)

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