CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I THE STRAIGHT STORY AND THE DUAL NATURE
6. 1. Appearance, Containment, and Atomic Power 13
7. 2. History, Science, and Hiroshima 38
8. PART II CONTAINMENT CULTURE
9. 3. Rhetoric, Sanity, and the Cold War: The Significance of Holden Caulfield's Testimony 71
10. 4. God's Law and the Wide Screen: The Ten Commandments as Cold War "Epic" 90
11. 5. Lady and (or) the Tramp: Sexual Containment and the Domestic Playboy 117
12. PART III DOUBLE OR NOTHING
13. 6. The Invasion of Postmodernism: The Catch-22 of the Bay of Pigs and Liberty Valance 157
14. 7. The Rules for Free Speech: Speech Act Theory and the Free Speech Movement 204
15. PART IV TWO NATIONS TOO
16. 8. My Country Too: Time, Place, and African American Identity in the Work of John A. Williams 223
17. 9. Race, Rights, Gender, and Personal Narrative: The Archaeology of "Self" in Meridian 245
18. CODA. DEMOCRACY
19. 10. Failed Cultural Narratives: America in the Postwar Era and the Story of Democracy 275
20. Conclusion 297
21. Notes 301
22. Bibliography 315
23. Index 327