Digesting the Cold War: The Reader’s Digest and the Korean War on the Popular Front
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Situated in a critical juncture of history, the Korean War provided a crucial site in which US Cold War policies were implemented and consolidated. This paper examines how US Cold War policy was articulated in terms of feelings and forged into popular attitudes, specifically by scrutinizing several Korean War stories from The Reader’s Digest. In the early 1950s, print journalism was still the primary source of information for the general public, and as one of America’s best-selling consumer magazines of all time, The Reader’s Digest played a role of interpreter by literally condensing political ideologies into visceral emotions for mass digestion. Its episodic, easily readable, and sentimental stories are good illustrations of the ways in which the Cold War politics of containment and integration were translated into popular sentiments of fear and sentimentality. As the post-Cold War world is often positioned in continuity with the Cold War, I hope an examination of the past would help illuminate the ways in which our present understanding of the global order is recast as the Zeitgeist and taken-for-granted popular sentiments.
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Situated in a critical juncture of history, the Korean War provided a crucial site in which US Cold War policies were implemented and consolidated. This paper examines how US Cold War policy was articulated in terms of feelings and forged into popular attitudes, specifically by scrutinizing several Korean War stories from The Reader’s Digest. In the early 1950s, print journalism was still the primary source of information for the general public, and as one of America’s best-selling consumer magazines of all time, The Reader’s Digest played a role of interpreter by literally condensing political ideologies into visceral emotions for mass digestion. Its episodic, easily readable, and sentimental stories are good illustrations of the ways in which the Cold War politics of containment and integration were translated into popular sentiments of fear and sentimentality. As the post-Cold War world is often positioned in continuity with the Cold War, I hope an examination of the past would help illuminate the ways in which our present understanding of the global order is recast as the Zeitgeist and taken-for-granted popular sentiments.
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