Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity

by Leerom Medovoi

Book Overview

Holden Caulfield, the beat writers, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and James Dean-these and other avatars of youthful rebellion were much more than entertainment. As Leerom Medovoi shows, they were often embraced and hotly debated at the dawn of the Cold War era because they stood for dissent and defiance at a time when the ideological production of the United States as leader of the "free world" required emancipatory figures who could represent America's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822336928
• ISBN13: 9780822336921
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"