Dr. Strangelove''s America - Society and Culture in the Atomic Age

Dr. Strangelove's America is finely researched and elegantly written. Henriksen delineates far better than anyone else the central and crucial role of the bomb in postwar American culture, particularly in the cultural rebellion of the 1960s and in the changed forms of cultural expression." —Harvard Sitkoff, author of The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1992

"An enormously creative book. . . . Henriksen is doing more than writing about the reaction to the atomic bomb. She really is writing a kind of cultural history of the Atomic Age." —Allan M. Winkler, author of The Atom and American Life

About the author

Margot A. Henriksen is Associate Professor of History at the University of Hawaii.

Summary

Although many scientists and other Americans protested the pursuit of nuclear superiority after World War II ended, they were drowned out by Cold War rhetoric that encouraged a 'culture of consensus'. This work states that a 'culture of dissent' arose, and traces this rebellion through many forms of popular culture.

Product details

• Authors: Margot A. Henriksen, Henriksen Margot A., Margot A Henrikson
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.1997
• EAN: 9780520083103
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08310-3
• No. of pages: 469
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, c 1950 to c 1959, History of the Americas, C 1945 To C 1960