Civil Defense Begins at Home: Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)

by Laura Mc Enaney (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2000

  $80.95

  Demonstrates that the creation of a civil defense program produced dilemmas about the degree to which civilian society should be militarized to defend itself against threats. This book uncovers responses to the militarization of daily life and reveals how government planners and ordinary people negotiated their way at the dawn of the atomic age.