A Cold War State of Mind: Brainwashing and Postwar American Society

by Matthew W. Dunne

First popularized during the 1950s, the concept of "brainwashing" is often viewed as an example of Cold War paranoia, an amusing relic of a bygone era. Yet as Matthew W. Dunne shows in this study, over time brainwashing came to connote much more than a sinister form of Communist mind control, taking on broader cultural and political meanings.

Moving beyond well-known debates over Korean War POWs and iconic cultural texts like The Manchurian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625340419
• ISBN13: 9781625340412
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher