Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West returns to familiar cultural forces--the West, anticommunism, and manliness--to show how they combined to suppress dissent and dominate the unruliness of literature in the name of a national identity after World War II. Few realize how much the domination of a "white male" American literary canon was a product not of long history, but of the Cold War. Suzanne Clark describes here...