About this title: At a time when Americans dedicate their national holidays to barbecues, sporting events, and driving madly on crowded interstate highways to vacation homes and theme parks, it may be difficult to remember an era when patriotic observance was a matter of high seriousness and legislated pageantry. But now the memory is restored in fascinating detail by Richard M. Fried in the eye-opening The Russians Are Coming! After summarizing such patriotic developments as the sanctification of the American flag and the wide-and occasionally coercive-acceptance of the Pledge of Allegiance, Fried describes ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780195070200ISBN:0195070208
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Edition: First Paper
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1999-08-12
ISBN-13:9780195134179ISBN:0195134176
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780195070200ISBN:0195070208
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 9/3/1998
ISBN-13:9780195070200ISBN:0195070208
Description: Fine. 0195070208 Hardback with dust jacket. Book has clean pages and tight binding. No marks, writing or stickers inside or out. Maybe a hint of edge wear from storage. Some wear on dust cover. Orders posted same or next business day with email confirmation. We ship to APO, FPO and International. 100% satisfaction guaranteed. read more
Edition: Number Line 135798642
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780195134179ISBN:0195134176
Description: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. 8 1/2 X 5 1/2. Covers, spine, edges and corners very good+. Binding firm and straight. No apparent wear. If seeking a copy for reference, research, analysis, dissertation or just enjoyment, this is the one. Pages are bright, tight and clean. 220 pages, indexed. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OUP USA
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780195134179ISBN:0195134176
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780195134179ISBN:0195134176
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 208x138. This book is printed on demand. (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) (236) as the saying goes, everyone loves a parade. but never more so than in 1950s america, when flag waving, martial pomp, and staged ceremony were presented and often perceived as america's last best defence against the communist threat. historian richard fried, author of nightmare in red, ploughs new ground with this exploration of the often absurd lengths the average citizen in mccarthyite america ... read more
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