The Making of the Cold War Enemy: Culture and Politics in the Military-Intellectual Complex

by Ron Theodore Robin

Book Overview

At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government enlisted the aid of a select group of psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists to blueprint enemy behavior. Not only did these academics bring sophisticated concepts to what became a project of demonizing communist societies, but they influenced decision-making in the map rooms, prison camps, and battlefields of the Korean War and in Vietnam. With verve and insight, Ron Robin tells...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691114552
• ISBN13: 9780691114552
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"