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By Jon Wiener

Hours after the USSR collapsed in 1991, Congress begun planning to set up the professional reminiscence of the chilly struggle. Conservatives ruled the court cases, spending hundreds of thousands to painting the clash as a triumph of fine over evil and a defeat of totalitarianism equivalent in importance to global battle II. during this provocative booklet, historian Jon Wiener visits chilly battle monuments, museums, and memorials around the usa to determine how the period is being remembered. The author’s trip offers a background of the chilly battle, one who turns many traditional notions on their heads.

In an enticing travelogue that takes readers to websites reminiscent of the life-size game of Berlin’s "Checkpoint Charlie" on the Reagan Library, the fallout preserve show on the Smithsonian, and indicates approximately "Sgt. Elvis," America’s most renowned chilly struggle veteran, Wiener discovers that the chilly conflict isn’t being remembered. It’s being forgotten. regardless of a massive attempt, the conservatives’ monuments weren’t equipped, their ancient websites have few viewers, and plenty of in their museums have now shifted concentration to different issues. Proponents of the suggestion of a heroic "Cold conflict victory" failed; the general public didn’t purchase the legitimate tale. energetic, readable, and well-informed, this ebook expands present discussions approximately reminiscence and background, and increases interesting questions about renowned skepticism towards reliable ideology.

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