We begin bombing in five minutes : late Cold War culture in the age of Reagan /
"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 fi...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press
[2021]
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| Serie: | Culture and politics in the Cold War and beyond
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1x675t8 |
Sommario:
- Setting the stage
- Nostalgia wars
- In the shadow of Vietnam
- Seeing Reds
- No nukes
- The wars for Central America
- The end of the line
- Conclusion.