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• Title : Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War
• Author : K.A. Cuordileone
• Rating : 4.98 (908 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-1-12
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 312 Pages
• Asin : 0415926009
• Language : English

The book is a wonderfully researched, highly engaging investigation of the many ways discourse about masculinity shaped early Cold War ideology."-- Robert Griswold, author of Fatherhood in America: A History"In this nuanced but powerful book, Cuordileone explores how concerns about gender, sexuality, and especially manhood transformed the language o

The book is a wonderfully researched, highly engaging investigation of the many ways discourse about masculinity shaped early Cold War ideology."-- Robert Griswold, author of Fatherhood in America: A History"In this nuanced but powerful book, Cuordileone explores how concerns about gender, sexuality, and especially manhood transformed the language of American politics, in the process, recasting American liberalism into a pragmatic, fighting faith. How conspicuous masculinity came to define a successful Democratic candidacy is, in effect, the topic of Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War, a solid and judicious historical analysis of public discourse, from the end of the 1940’s until the Vietnam War…Cuordileone has made an invaluable contribution to th

Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, Norman Mailer, David Riesman, William Whyte, Dwight D. Reading major public figures like Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Adlai Stevenson, J. Kennedy as well as many lesser know experts and cultural commentators, Cuordileone reveals how deep anxieties about a decline in American masculinity shaped the political dynamics of the time and inspired a reinvention of the liberal as a cold warrior in the figure of JFK.. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and John F. Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War examines the way in which a cult of toughness shaped the politics of the early cold war. Delving into the cultural origins of this preoccupation with masculinity, Cuordileone shows how the excessive emphasis placed on masculine virility in political life reflected acute mid-twentieth century anxieties about manhood and sexuality as well the ideological imperatives of the cold war

I am one of those old people fortunate enough to be in one of Bob Smith's Shakespeare classes.He is a genius with a very wry sense of humor.Shakespeare comes alive in his class along with a wonderful background of English history of the Bards' time.This book gave me an insight into this authors' personality.. It's not theoretical or programming based, rather a superb description of what fuzzy logic can DO. Recently, in class Smith described witnessing the gruesome suicide of a teenage boy. And what author would learn to speak Russian just to be able to research material for his book better?"Ambassadors from Earth" was great. Among other things, the book has made it is clear to me that while each side took the “race” very seriously, they also developed a healthy respect and admiration for the often spectacular successes of their counterparts.This is an inside story that I think shouldn’t be missed by those with an interest in space exploration and I am happy to have it in my collection of books on the subject. However the way he does it is to simplistic. And in doing so, changed police

. Cuordileone is Associate Professor of History, New York City College of Technology, The City University of New York. K.A