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Paperback The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!: Pageantry and Patriotism in Cold-War America Book

ISBN: 0195134176

ISBN13: 9780195134179

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!: Pageantry and Patriotism in Cold-War America

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This book explores a widely lived yet little remembered facet of America's cultural and political history: the Cold War as experienced at the grassroots level. Here, Fried traces the cresting of modern patriotic observance during World War II and then shows how patriotic and civic activists afterwards labored to recreate a remembered unity and commitment in the tension-filled Cold War era. A variety of national and local entities mounted campaigns...

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Outstanding summary of the lighter side of the cold war era

Of Fried's three books on the cold war era, this focused on pagentry rather than just McCarthyism (although the two are inextricably tied). "The Russians..." provided humorous and interesting anecdotes about the impact of the cold war on everyday americans in ways I could not have imagined. I highly recommend reading it.
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