Pressing the fight
Subtitle: print, propaganda, and the Cold War
By: edited by Greg Barnhisel and Catherine Turner.
Contributors: Barnhisel, Greg, 1969-; Turner, Catherine, 1968-
Series: Studies in print culture and the history of the book
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781558497368
Subjects: Book industries and trade -- Political aspects; Press and propaganda -- History -- 20th century; Cold War -- Political aspects; Cold War -- Social aspects; Publishers and publishing -- Political aspects; Book industries and trade -- History -- 20th century; Popular culture and literature -- History -- 20th century; Politics and literature; Propaganda, International; Propaganda, Anti-communist
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Greg Barnhisel and Catherine Turner; title: Printing from left to right.; title: The medium, the message, the movement : print culture and new left politics / Kristin Mathews; title: The education of a Cold War conservative: anti-communist literature of the 1950s and 1960s / Laura Jane Gifford; title: Establishing a beachhead.; title: Literature and reeducation in occupied Germany, 1945/1949 / Christian Kanig; title: Democratic bookshelf: American libraries in occupied Japan / Hiromi Ochi; title: The British Information Research Department and Cold War propaganda publishing / James B. Smith; title: Books for the world: American book programs in the developing world, 1948/1968 / Amanda Laugesen; title: Impact of propaganda materials in free world countries / Martin Manning; title: Print as a tool to shape domestic attitudes.; title: "How can I tell my grandchildren what I did in the Cold War?": militarizing the funny pages and  Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon / Edward Brunner; title: Pineapple glaze and backyard luaus: Cold War cookbooks and the fiftieth state / Amy Reddinger; title: Mediating revolution: travel literature and the Vietnam War / Scott Laderman; title: The cultural Cold War in the United States and abroad.; title: Promoting literature in the most dangerous area in the world: the Cold War, the boom, and mundo nuevo / Russell Cobb; title: "Truth, freedom, perfection": Alfred Barr's What is modern painting? as Cold War rhetoric / Patricia Hills.