| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 207 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Consumption, Discipline, and Democracy: The "New Magazines" and Reader's Digest -- Reading the DigestWriting the World -- Ambivalent Geography: Writing World Orders, 1922 to 1945 -- The Beginnings of Cold War -- The Jeopardy of Detente -- The "Second Cold War" -- Denying Imperial Decline at the End of the Cold War -- Appendix: Reader's Digest Readers: Demographic Profile, 1991 |
| Summary |
By examining the changing ways in which Reader's Digest has explained America and its relation to the world, Sharp exposes the links that the magazine has forged between the individual reader and the destiny of the United States, particularly as this relates to the Soviet Union, the Cold War enemy whose character the Digest is often credited with helping to create. Not about the Soviet Union per se, or about the historical details of any other threat to the United States, this is a book about America and the changing roles that this central voice of American mass culture envisioned for the cou |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-202) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Reader's Digest Association fast (OCoLC)fst00536384 |
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Reader's digest -- Influence
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| Subject |
National characteristics, American -- History -- 20th century
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Cold War -- Press coverage -- United States
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REFERENCE -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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National characteristics, American.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Koude Oorlog.
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Perswezen.
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Reader's digest (tijdschrift)
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816690626 |
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0816690626 |
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9780816652938 |
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0816652937 |
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