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We begin bombing in five minutes : late Cold War culture in the age of Reagan

Title: We begin bombing in five minutes : late Cold War culture in the age of Reagan / Andrew Hunt.
Author: Hunt, Andrew E., 1968-
Publication: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2021]

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Description

x, 213 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.

Summary

"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 find themselves laughing along with the president. Long a fervent warrior against what he termed the "Evil Empire," by the mid-1980s, Reagan confronted growing domestic opposition to his revival of the Cold War. While numerous histories of the era have glorified the "Decade of Greed," historian Andrew Hunt instead explores the period's robust political and cultural dissent. We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes focuses on a striking array of protest movements that took up issues such as the nuclear arms race, U.S. intervention in Central America, and American investments in South Africa. Hunt's new history of the eighties investigates how film, television, and other facets of popular culture critiqued Washington's Cold War policies and reveals that activists and cultural rebels alike posed a more meaningful challenge to the Cold War's excesses than their predecessors in the McCarthy era"--

Series Statement

Culture and politics in the Cold War and beyond

Uniform Title

Culture and politics in the Cold War and beyond.

Alternative Title

Late Cold War culture in the age of Reagan

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 22-172

ISBN

9781625345769
1625345763
9781625345776
1625345771

LCCN

2020053365

OCLC

1203964245

Author

Hunt, Andrew E., 1968- author.

Title

We begin bombing in five minutes : late Cold War culture in the age of Reagan / Andrew Hunt.

Publisher

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Culture and politics in the Cold War and beyond

Culture and politics in the Cold War and beyond.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Form:

Online version: Hunt, Andrew. We begin bombing in five minutes Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2021] 9781613768327 (DLC) 2020053366

Research Call Number

JFE 22-172

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