Selling the American Way - 9780812221190

Selling the American WayU.S. Propaganda and the Cold War\nAuthor(s): Laura A. Belmonte\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812221190, 978-0812221190\nSynopsis\nIn 1955, the United States Information Agency published a lavishly illustrated booklet called My America. Assembled ostensibly to document \""the basic elements of a free dynamic society,\"" the booklet emphasized cultural diversity, political freedom, and social mobility and made no mention of McCarthyism or the Cold War. Though hyperbolic, My America was, as Laura A. Belmonte shows, merely one of hundreds of pamphlets from this era written and distributed in an organized attempt to forge a collective defense of the \""American way of life.\""\n Selling the American Way examines the context, content, and reception of [url] propaganda during the early Cold War. Determined to protect democratic capitalism and undercut communism, [url.