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The Imaginary War; Civil Defense and American Cold War Culture
by Oakes, Guy
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0195090276
- ISBN 13
- 9780195090277
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [8], 194, [6] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. DJ has sticker residue at the back. The author was the Jack T. Kvernland Professor of Philosophy and Social Policy at Monmouth College and the author of The Soul of the Salesman and Weber and Rickert. He has published on classical German sociology, especially Georg Simmel and Max Weber, and most recently on the sociology of ethics. "Duck and cover" are unforgettable words for a generation of Americans, who listened throughout the Cold War to the unescapable propaganda of civil defense. Yet it would have been impossible to protect Americans from a real nuclear attack, and, as Guy Oakes shows in The Imaginary War, national security officials knew it. The real purpose of 1950's civil defense programs, Oakes contends, was not to protect Americans from the bomb, but to ingrain in them the moral resolve needed to face the hazards of the Cold War. Uncovering the links between national security, civil defense, and civic ethics, Oakes reveals three sides to the civil defense program: a system of emotional management designed to control fear; the fictional construction of a manageable world of nuclear attack; and the production of a Cold War ethic rooted in the mythology of the home, the ultimate sanctuary of American values. This fascinating analysis of the culture of civil defense and the official mythmaking of the Cold War will be essential reading for all those interested in American history, politics, and culture.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85534
- Title
- The Imaginary War; Civil Defense and American Cold War Culture
- Author
- Oakes, Guy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing [Stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0195090276
- ISBN 13
- 9780195090277
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- Cold War, Civil Defense, Atomic Bomb, Nuclear Strategy, National Security, Nuclear Terror, Emotion Management, Social Psychology, Operation Alert, Radioactive Fallout, Crisis Management, Propaganda
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