Richard M. Fried is Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Nightmare in Red.

Richard M. Fried's new book The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! illuminates the public spectacles and pageantry which underlie the most colourful notions of the epoch between the end of the Second World War and the rise of a counter-culture. Fried ... uncovers the surprising partnership between national ideology and private civic associations that fuelled the era's patriotism. he skillfully traces the quasi-professional networks of concerned citizens who engineered many star-spangled extravaganzas. Without surrendering a sense of the comedy of Cold War pageantry, Fried brings historical rigour to a piece of social history that is too often exploited as camp. A fine picture emerges of the "soft", everyday propaganda that existed alongside the more widely documented, malign culture of McCarthyism.

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Patriotic Pageantry in America 1. Wake Up, America: Origins of Modern Patriotism 2. Precious Freight: The Freedom Train 3. Capturing the Streets for Loyalty 4. Springtime for Stalin in Mosinee 5. "The Cold War Belongs to Us All": Patriotizing the American Calendar 6. The Cornwallises Send Regrets: Historical Commemoration in the 1950s 7. Patriotic Gore 8. "Shame on Them": The Decline on Cold War Pageantry Conclusion Notes Manuscript Sources Index

Richard M. Fried is Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Nightmare in Red.

Richard M. Fried's new book The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! illuminates the public spectacles and pageantry which underlie the most colourful notions of the epoch between the end of the Second World War and the rise of a counter-culture. Fried ... uncovers the surprising partnership between national ideology and private civic associations that fuelled the era's patriotism. he skillfully traces the quasi-professional networks of concerned citizens who engineered many star-spangled extravaganzas. Without surrendering a sense of the comedy of Cold War pageantry, Fried brings historical rigour to a piece of social history that is too often exploited as camp. A fine picture emerges of the "soft", everyday propaganda that existed alongside the more widely documented, malign culture of McCarthyism.

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Patriotic Pageantry in America 1. Wake Up, America: Origins of Modern Patriotism 2. Precious Freight: The Freedom Train 3. Capturing the Streets for Loyalty 4. Springtime for Stalin in Mosinee 5. "The Cold War Belongs to Us All": Patriotizing the American Calendar 6. The Cornwallises Send Regrets: Historical Commemoration in the 1950s 7. Patriotic Gore 8. "Shame on Them": The Decline on Cold War Pageantry Conclusion Notes Manuscript Sources Index