Brainpower for the Cold War

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Brainpower for the Cold War: the sputnik crisis and National Defense Education Act of [Barbara Barksdale Clowse]. The Cold War is the term used to define the period between the end of World War II in and the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellite states in The protatgonists in the Cold War were the West, led by the United States, and the eastern bloc, led by the Soviet Union.

“The Cold War was a fight to the death,” notes Thomas C. Reed, “fought with bayonets, napalm, and high-tech weaponry of every sort—save one. It was not fought with nuclear weapons.” With global powers now engaged in cataclysmic encounters, there is no more important time for this essential, epic account of the past half century, the tense years when Cited by:   Top 10 books about the cold war The long, nuclear-armed standoff that followed the second world war was a terrifying parody of peace –.

Central to the book is the concept of brainpower—a term used by Lecklider to capture the ways in which journalists, writers, artists, and others invoked intelligence to embolden the majority of Americans who did not have access to institutions of higher learning.

Expressions of brainpower, Lecklider argues, challenged the deeply embedded Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. 4 Great Books on the Cold War. On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, The Daily Beast sorts through the best new and.

Brainpower for the Cold War: The Sputnik Crisis and National Defense Education Act of By Barbara Barksdale Clowse. (Westport: Greenwood, x + pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $)Cited by: 1. But, in the context of the Second World War and early Cold War years when scientific brainpower was supposedly at a premium, they argued that this artificial and inaccurate distinction, along with all of its ramifications, was ultimately wasteful and : Laura Micheletti Puaca.

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Inventing the Egghead: The Paradoxes of Brainpower in Cold War American Culture Article in Journal of American Studies 45(02) - May with 5 Reads How we measure 'reads'. "The history of the Cold War has been the history of the world since " So begins The Cold War: A History, a wide-ranging narrative by award-winning political commentator Martin Walker, which was one of the first major studies of its kind.

Now that it's over, it's crucial to our future to understand how the Cold War has shaped us and, especially, to recognize it as the economic /5(2). The Cold War: A New History is meant chiefly, therefore, for a new generation of readers for whom the Cold War was never “current events.” I hope readers who lived through the Cold War will also find the volume useful, because as Marx once said (Groucho, not Karl), “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend.

At P.S. 19, we were still having bomb drills and the Cold War was still very much on, as was a hot war in Vietnam, but there was no recognition of. Free-Market Fallout.

For This We Won the Cold War. By Deborah Stead gives us a fascinating glimpse of the brainpower at Western capital's disposal, the book largely ignores the problems that. Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large.

Russia’s access to detailed information on the United States and its allies may not seem so shocking in this day of data clouds and leaks, but long before we had satellite imagery of any neighborhood at a finger’s reach, the amount the Soviet. And don't forget - we have two books out on the Cold War.

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