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“A watershed moment in the current revitalization of Cold War studies. The editors have brought together a strong group of cultural critics to revise and extend the insights of the foundational ‘containment culture’ work of Thomas Schaub, Alan Nadel, and Ellen Schrecker. From its rereadings of figures we thought we knew, to its reconsiderations of concepts we thought we’d mastered, to Nadel’s own revisitation and extension of his work, this book will help those of us in English, American studies, cultural studies, history, and sociology who thought we knew the Cold War to think again.”

Samuel Cohen, author, After the End of History

“American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War helps explain not only the Cold War, but also our present nostalgia for it. Belletto and Grausam collected rich and far-ranging essays representing the best contemporary work on a key moment of American political and literary culture, contributing significantly to a global understanding of the Cold War and enriching the contemporary discussion of the relationship between politics and cultural production.”

Priscilla Wald, author, Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative

Reviews

“The essays in American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War remind us once again that scholars working outside the history profession are currently producing some of the most innovative work in the field of Cold War studies.”

Robert Genter, The Journal of American History

“By restlessly refusing and rethinking stale interpretive paradigms, the authors assembled by Belletto and Grausam prompt readers to return to events that world leaders believe finished, to revisit wars declared won, and to reread records historians consider complete.”

Joseph George, College Literature

“Bold and boundary-flouting content.”

Alan Wald, Modernism/Modernity

“one of the more significant achievements of this collection is to be found in the various means by which it comes ultimately to insist on a polyvalent transnational framework for understanding American literature in the Cold War era.”

Will Norman, Transatlantica