A look at the fall-out shelters and how they reflected American anxieties and hopes during the 1950's and 60's.
Kenneth D. Rose teaches at California State University and is author of American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition.
"Kenneth Rose's One Nation Underground explores U.S. nuclear history from the bottom up--literally... Rose deserves credit for not trivializing this period of our history, as so many retrospectives of the Cold War era have tended to do." --Journal of Cold War Studies "Important ... One Nation Underground is an elegant account of the issues involved in the nuclear age." --Pacific Northwest Quarterly "This is a fine compilation of a massive amount of research, well founded in the existing literature, and presented in a readable narrative." --Journal of Illinois History "A readable short history of the fallout shelters and the broader political debate over civil defense... Mr. Rose is a good storyteller, and One Nation Underground is engagingly writen, with an array of evocative photgraphs." --The Wall Street Journal "Rose writes well, with a good eye for the telling phrase and revealing example."--Journal of Social History
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