Civil Defense Begins at Home: Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties

by Laura McEnaney

Dad built a bomb shelter in the backyard, Mom stocked the survival kit in the basement, and the kids practiced ducking under their desks at school. This was family life in the new era of the A-bomb. This was civil defense. In this provocative work of social and political history, Laura McEnaney takes us into the secretive world of defense planners and the homes of ordinary citizens to explore how postwar civil defense turned the front lawn into...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691001383
• ISBN13: 9780691001388
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"