Contents

• Introduction: U.S. Culture and the Cold War / Peter J. Kuznick and James Gilbert
• Ch. 1. America’s Children in an Era of War, Hot and Cold: The Holocaust, the Bomb, and Child Rearing in the 1940s / William M. Tuttle, Jr.
• Ch. 2. Cold War Workers, Cold War Communities / Ann Markusen - - Ch. 3. The Illusion of Unity in Cold War Culture / Alan Brinkley
• Ch. 4. "We’ll Follow the Old Man": The Strains of Sentimental Militarism in Popular Films of the Fifties / Christian G. Appy
• Ch. 5. Sex, Gender, and the Cold War Language of Reform / Joanne Meyerowitz
• Ch. 6. Containment at Home: Gender, Sexuality, and National Identity in Cold War America / Jane Sherron De Hart
• Ch. 7. "Cold War Culture" Doesn’t Say It All / Peter Filene
• Ch. 8. Still the Best Catch There Is: Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 / Stephen J. Whitfield
• Ch. 9. Will the Sixties Never End? Or Perhaps at Least the Thirties? Or Maybe Even the Progressive Era? Contrarian Thoughts on Change and Continuity in American Political Culture at the Turn of the Millennium / Leo P. Ribuffo