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Channeling the Past: Politicizing History in Postwar America (Studies in American Thought and Culture)
Erik Christiansen
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Description for Channeling the Past: Politicizing History in Postwar America (Studies in American Thought and Culture)
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; JFCA; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
After the turmoil of the Great Depression and World War II, Americans looked to the nation’s more distant past for lessons to inform its uncertain future. By applying recent and emerging techniques in mass communication—including radio and television programs and commercial book clubs—American elites working in media, commerce, and government used history to confer authority on their respective messages.
With insight and wit, Erik Christiansen uncovers in Channeling the Past the ways that powerful corporations rewrote history to strengthen the postwar corporate state, while progressives, communists, and other leftists vied to make their own versions ... Read more
After the turmoil of the Great Depression and World War II, Americans looked to the nation’s more distant past for lessons to inform its uncertain future. By applying recent and emerging techniques in mass communication—including radio and television programs and commercial book clubs—American elites working in media, commerce, and government used history to confer authority on their respective messages.
With insight and wit, Erik Christiansen uncovers in Channeling the Past the ways that powerful corporations rewrote history to strengthen the postwar corporate state, while progressives, communists, and other leftists vied to make their own versions ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299289041
SKU
V9780299289041
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About Erik Christiansen
Erik Christiansen is assistant professor of history and public history coordinator at Rhode Island College.
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