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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Wiener, Jon (1944-....)
Titre(s) : How we forgot the Cold War [Texte imprimé] : a historical journey across America / Jon Wiener
Publication : Berkeley : University of California Press, copyright cop. 2012
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-376 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-348) and index
Hours after the USSR collapsed in 1991, the U.S. Congress began making plans to establish
the official memory of the Cold War. Conservatives dominated the proceedings, spending
millions of dollars to portray the conflict as a clash of good vs. evil, ending in
a defeat of totalitarianism equal in significance to the outcome of World War II.
In this book, the author visits Cold War monuments, museums, and memorials across
the United States to find out how the era is remembered today. His journey provides
a history of the Cold War that turns many conventional notions on their heads
Sujet(s) : Guerre froide -- Mémoire collective -- États-Unis
Guerre froide -- Musées -- États-Unis
Tourisme historique -- Aspect politique -- États-Unis -- 1945-....
Indice(s) Dewey :
973.92 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - 1953-2001
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780520271418. - ISBN 0520271416. - ISBN 9780520282216. - ISBN 0520282213 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45752895m
Notice n° :
FRBNF45752895
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction:. Forgetting the Cold War -- ; Hippie Day at the Reagan Library -- ;
The Victims of Communism Museum : a study in failure -- ; Getting started : the Churchill
Memorial in Missouri -- ; Searching for the pumpkin patch : the Whittaker Chambers
National Historic Landmark -- ; Naming names, from Laramie to Beverly Hills -- ; Secrets
on display : the CIA Museum and the NSA Museum -- ; Cold war cleanup : the Hanford
tour -- ; Test site tourism in Nevada -- ; Memorial Day in Lakewood and La Jolla :
Korean War monuments of California -- ; Code name "Ethel" : the Rosenbergs in the
museums -- ; Mound builders of Missouri : nuclear waste at Weldon Springs -- ; Cold
War Elvis : Sgt. Presley at the General George Patton Museum -- ; The Graceland of
Cold War tourism : the Greenbrier Bunker -- ; Ike's Emmy : monuments to the military-industrial
complex -- ; The fallout shelters of North Dakota -- ; "It had to do with Cuba and
missiles" : thirteen days in October -- ; The museum of the missile gap : Arizona's
Titan Missile Museum -- ; The museum of détente : the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda
-- ; Rocky Flats : uncovering the secrets -- ; CNN's Cold War : equal time for the
Russians -- ; Harry Truman's amazing museum -- ; Conclusion:. History, memory, and
the Cold War -- ; Epilogue:. From the Cold War to the war in Iraq.
