Pressing the fight : print, propaganda, and the Cold War / edited by Greg Barnhisel and Catherine Turner.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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"In this volume, scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the myriad ways print was used in the Cold War. Looking at materials ranging from textbooks and cookbooks to art catalogs, newspaper comics, and travel guides, they analyze not only the content of printed matter but also the material circumstances of its production, the people and institutions that disseminated it, and the audiences that consumed it. Among topics discussed are the infiltration of book publishing by propagandists East and West; the distribution of pro-American printed matter in postwar Japan through libraries, schools, and consulates; and the collaboration of foundations, academia, and the government in the promotion of high culture as evidence of superiority of Western values"--Fly leaf.

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