List of Illustrations Introduction: Forgetting the Cold War Part One. The End 1. Hippie Day at the Reagan Library 2. The Victims of Communism Museum: A Study in Failure Part Two. The Beginning: 1946--1949 3. Getting Started: The Churchill Memorial in Missouri 4. Searching for the Pumpkin Patch: The Whittaker Chambers National Historic Landmark 5. Naming Names, from Laramie to Beverly Hills 6. Secrets on Display: The CIA Museum and the NSA Museum 7. Cold War Cleanup: The Hanford Tour Part Three. The 1950s 8. Test Site Tourism in Nevada 9. Memorial Day in Lakewood and La Jolla: Korean War Monuments of California 10. Code Name "Ethel": The Rosenbergs in the Museums 11. Mound Builders of Missouri: Nuclear Waste at Weldon Spring 12. Cold War Elvis: Sgt. Presley at the General George Patton Museum Part Four. The 1960s and After 13. The Graceland of Cold War Tourism: The Greenbrier Bunker 14. Ike's Emmy: Monuments to the Military-Industrial Complex 15. The Fallout Shelters of North Dakota 16. "It Had to Do with Cuba and Missiles": Thirteen Days in October 17. The Museum of the Missile Gap: Arizona's Titan Missile Memorial 18. The Museum of Detente: The Nixon Library in Yorba Linda Part Five. Alternative Approaches 19. Rocky Flats: Uncovering the Secrets 20. CNN's Cold War: Equal Time for the Russians 21. Harry Truman's Amazing Museum Conclusion: History, Memory, and the Cold War Epilogue: From the Cold War to the War in Iraq Acknowledgments Notes Index
Jon Wiener is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Among his books are Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files (UC Press) and Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud and Politics in the Ivory Tower.
"As popular reading, it's got the humor and wit of Sarah Vowell's Assassination Vacation and James Loewen's Sundown Towns and DJ Waldie's Holy Land. By which I mean it's witty and kinda mean, and exhilarating bad fun." -- Andrew Tonkovich Oc Weekly: Orange County News, Arts & Ent "Wiener's wit and deft grasp of geopolitics make for one of the season's most intriguing historical books." -- Andrew Milner Philadelphia City Paper "Who knew the Cold War was funny? Wiener's adventures in American historical memory are surprisingly lively." -- Sarah Rothbard Zocalo Public Square "A provocative and fascinating new book." -- Andrew Gumbel Los Angeles Review Of Books "A political argument masquerading as a travel yarn... Wiener's accounts of his trips to nuclear test sites, missile-launching control centers and fallout shelter exhibits contrast the guides' cheerful patter with the prospect of Armageddon." -- Joshua Hammer New York Times Book Review "A splendid tour de farce of the museums and other memory palaces established largely by the American right in honor of the greatest triumph in human history, the winning of the... oh, remind me, what was it?" Tomdispatch "...An account of memory laced with irony and wit..." -- Kevin Temple The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture "Wiener is a sharp observer." -- Patrick Hagopian American Historical Review
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