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We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes

Name: We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes
Brand: University of Massachusetts Press
SKU: 9781625345769
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Late Cold War Culture in the Age of Reagan

Szerző: Andrew Hunt

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: University of Massachusetts Press

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In the moments before his weekly radio address hit the airwaves in 1984, Ronald Reagan made an off-t...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

Andrew Hunt

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2021

oldal

232

EAN

9781625345769

ISBN

1625345763

Enbook ID

33412945

Kiadó

University of Massachusetts Press

Súly

364

Méretek

152 x 229 x 17

Teljes leírás

In the moments before his weekly radio address hit the airwaves in 1984, Ronald Reagan made an off-the-record joke: 'I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.' As reports of the stunt leaked to the press, many Americans did not find themselves laughing along with the president. Long a fervent warrior against what he termed the 'Evil Empire,' by the mid-1980s, Reagan confronted growing domestic opposition to his revival of the Cold War. While numerous histories of the era have glorified the 'Decade of Greed,' historian Andrew Hunt instead explores the period's robust political and cultural dissent.

We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes focuses on a striking array of protest movements that took up issues such as the nuclear arms race, U.S. intervention in Central America, and American investments in South Africa. Hunt's new history of the eighties investigates how film, television, and other facets of popular culture critiqued Washington's Cold War policies and reveals that activists and cultural rebels alike posed a more meaningful challenge to the Cold War's excesses than their predecessors in the McCarthy era.