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Cold War, cool medium: television, McCarthyism, and American culture

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Conventional wisdom holds that television was a handmaiden to McCarthyism, but this text argues that it was through television that America became a more open and tolerant place.

This text paints a picture of Cold War America that belies many clichés.

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Columbia University Press
023150327X / 9780231503273
eBook (EPUB)
06/12/2003
English
305 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
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Reprint. Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed. Originally published: 2004.