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Every Home a Fortress - Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter (Paperback)
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Every Home a Fortress - Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter (Paperback)
Series: Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
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In Every Home a Fortress, Thomas Bishop details the remarkable
cultural history and personal stories behind an iconic figure of
Cold War masculinity -- the fallout shelter father, who, with spade
in hand and the canned goods he has amassed, sought to save his
family from atomic warfare. Putting policy documents and
presidential addresses into conversation with previously unmined
personal letters, diaries, local media coverage, and antinuclear
ephemera, Bishop demonstrates that the nuclear crisis years of 1957
to 1963 were not just pivotal for the history of international
relations but were also a transitional moment in the social
histories of the white middle class and American fatherhood. During
this era, public concerns surrounding civil defense shaped private
family conversations, and the fallout shelter emerged as a site at
which ideas of nationhood, national security, and masculinity
collided with the complex reality of trying to raise and protect a
family in the nuclear age.
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