Condensing the Cold War
Subtitle: Reader's digest and American identity
By: Joanne P. Sharp.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Reader's digest; Cold War -- Press coverage -- United States
Description: "Condensing the Cold War shifts the focus on geopolitics and international relations in America from the study of political elites to the imagined geographies of popular culture. Joanne Sharp exposes the links that the Digest forged between the individual reader and the destiny of the United States, especially those relating to the Soviet Union, a Cold War enemy whose character the magazine is often credited with helping to create. Sharp shows how the changing representations of the communist threat to the United States depicted in the Digest produced a particular image of Americanness for its readers and reveals how readers were drawn into the developing story to become complicit subjects of this political identity."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: ONE; title: Consumption, Discipline, and Democracy: The "New Magazines" and Reader's Digest; title: TWO; title: Reading the DigestWriting the World 24; title: THREE; title: Ambivalent Geography: Writing World Orders, 1922 to 1945 55; title: FOUR; title: The Beginnings of Cold War 83; title: FIVE; title: The Jeopardy of Detente 107; title: SIX; title: The "Second Cold War" 122; title: SEVEN; title: Denying Imperial Decline at the End of the Cold War 137; title: Conclusion 163; title: Appendix: Reader's Digest Readers: Demographic Profile, 1991 174.