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...

Полное описание

Библиографические подробности
Главный автор: Hunt, Andrew E., 1968- (Автор)
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press [2021]
Серии:Culture and politics in the Cold War and beyond
Online-ссылка:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1x675t8
Оглавление:
  • 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.