Freeze! - The Grassroots Movement to Halt the Arms Race and End the Cold War

Informationen zum Autor Henry Richard Maar III is Lecturer in History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and California State University, Northridge. Follow him on X @HMaar. Klappentext "In the late Cold War, a peace movement emerged with a specific goal: bilaterally freeze the burgeoning arms race. The Nuclear Freeze movement soon swelled across American society, pressuring the administration of Ronald Reagan to reverse the arms race or continue to face a growing backlash with potential electoral repercussions"-- Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Grassroots Diplomacy 1. The Lost Years: The Peace Movement, from Vietnam to Nuclear Freeze 2. Igniting a Movement: The Reagan Administration's War on Peace 3. From the Streets to the Pulpit: The Catholic Challenge to the Arms Race 4. With Friends Like These: Congress and the Nuclear Freeze Debate 5. Envisioning the Day After: Fear of the Bomb in 1980s Political and Popular Culture 6. The Perils of Failed Diplomacy: 1983 and the Year of Living Dangerously 7. Seizing the Peace: The Nuclear Freeze Movement and the 1984 Election Epilogue: Bedtime for the Bomb

Product details

• Authors: Henry Richard Maar
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2022
• EAN: 9781501760884
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-6088-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries