Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War

Contents: 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