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Pressing the fight : print, propaganda, and the Cold War / edited by Greg Barnhisel and Catherine Turner.

Contributor Barnhisel, Greg, 1969-

Imprint:Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2010.

Descriptionvi, 285 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Note:Introduction / Greg Barnhisel and Catherine Turner -- Printing from left to right. The medium, the message, the movement : print culture and new left politics / Kristin Mathews -- The education of a Cold War conservative : anti-communist literature of the 1950s and 1960s / Laura Jane Gifford -- Establishing a beachhead. Literature and reeducation in occupied Germany, 1945-1949 / Christian Kanig -- Democratic bookshelf : American libraries in occupied Japan / Hiromi Ochi -- The British Information Research Department and Cold War propaganda publishing / James B. Smith -- Books for the world : American book programs in the developing world, 1948-1968 / Amanda Laugesen -- Impact of propaganda materials in free world countries / Martin Manning -- Print as a tool to shape domestic attitudes. "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 -- Pineapple glaze and backyard luaus : Cold War cookbooks and the fiftieth state / Amy Reddinger -- Mediating revolution : travel literature and the Vietnam War / Scott Laderman -- The cultural Cold War in the United States and abroad. Promoting literature in the most dangerous area in the world : the Cold War, the boom, and mundo nuevo / Russell Cobb -- " Truth, freedom, perfection" : Alfred Barr's What is modern painting? as Cold War rhetoric / Patricia Hills.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.



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Contributor
Barnhisel, Greg, 1969-
Turner, Catherine, 1968-
Series Statement
Studies in print culture and the history of the book
Subject:
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.