Cold War Hothouses

Cold War Hothouses PDF Author: Beatriz Colomina
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1616890878
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
The technological innovation and unprecedented physical growth of the cold war era permeated American life in every aspect and at every scale. From the creation of the military-industrial complex and the beginnings of suburban sprawl to the production of the ballpoint pen and the TV dinner, the artifacts of the period are a numerous and diverse as they are familiar. Over the past half-century, our awe at the advances of postwar society has softened to nostalgia, and our affection for its material culture has clouded our memories of the enormous spatial reorganizations and infrastructural transformations that changed American life forever.

Safe Houses

Safe Houses PDF Author: Dan Fesperman
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0525520201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
West Berlin, 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA's network of safe houses, rare havens for field agents and case officers amidst the dangerous milieu of a city in the grips of the Cold War. Helen's world is upended when she overhears a meeting between two people unfamiliar to her speaking a coded language that hints at shadowy realities. Before the day is out, she witnesses a second unauthorized encounter, one that will place her in the sight lines of the most ruthless and dangerous man at the agency. What she has witnessed will have repercussions that reach across decades and continents into the present day, when, in a farm town in Maryland, a young man is arrested for the double murder of his parents, and his sister takes it upon herself to find out why he did it.

Hot Books in the Cold War

Hot Books in the Cold War PDF Author: Alfread A. Reisch
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 6155225230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 597

Book Description
This study reveals the hidden story of the secret book distribution program to Eastern Europe financed by the CIA during the Cold War. At its height between 1957 and 1970, the book program was one of the least known but most effective methods of penetrating the Iron Curtain, reaching thousands of intellectuals and professionals in the Soviet Bloc. Reisch conducted thorough research on the key personalities involved in the book program, especially the two key figures: S. S. Walker, who initiated the idea of a ?mailing project,? and G. C. Minden, who developed it into one of the most effective political and psychological tools of the Cold War. The book includes excellent chapters on the vagaries of censorship and interception of books by communist authorities based on personal letters and accounts from recipients of Western material. It will stand as a testimony in honor of the handful of imaginative, determined, and hard-working individuals who helped to free half of Europe from mental bondage and planted many of the seeds that germinated when communism collapsed and the Soviet bloc disintegrated.

Hothouse

Hothouse PDF Author: Boris Kachka
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451691912
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
An account of the book publisher who is home to more Nobel Prize-winning writers than any other publishing house in the world reveals the era and city that built FSG through the stories of two men--Roger Straus and Robert Giroux.

RIBA Journal

RIBA Journal PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 612

Book Description

American Visual Culture

American Visual Culture PDF Author: Mark S. Rawlinson
Publisher: Berg
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Visual culture - art, advertising, architecture, cinema, television, cartography, video, the internet and images of science - has shaped American national identity more than any other country. This book explores how visual culture has at once transformed and consolidated the image of the United States.

Cold War Confrontations

Cold War Confrontations PDF Author: Jack Masey
Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 430

Book Description
World's Fairs and International Exhibitions have always had a political as well as a commercial and cultural context. This was particularly true during the Cold War when America and the Soviet Union used architecture and design to represent their opposing political ideologies. Jack Masey served with the United States Information Agency from 1951 to 1979, for many years as Director of Design. This important new book draws on his recollections and extensive new illustrative material to detail the significant role played by architects and designers in shaping America's image during the cultural Cold War.
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