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Education And The Cold War

Name: Education And The Cold War
Author: Andrew Hartman
ISBN: 9780230263673

by Andrew Hartman

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Overview

Shortly after the Russians launched Sputnik in 1957, Hannah Arendt quipped that "only in America could a crisis in education actually become a factor in politics." The Cold War battle for the American school-dramatized but not initiated by Sputnik-proved Arendt correct. The schools served as a battleground in the ideological conflicts of the 1950s. Beginning with the genealogy of progressive education, and ending with the formation of New Left and New Right thought, Education and the Cold War offers a fresh perspective on the postwar transformation in U.S. political culture by way of an examination of the educational history of that era.

About the Author:
Andrew Hartman is Assistant Professor of History at Illinois State University

About the Author, Andrew Hartman

Andrew Hartman is Assistant Professor of History at Illinois State University and the author of numerous published articles in journals such as Race and Class, Third World Quarterly, Poverty and Race, Socialism and Democracy, Teachers College Record, and Zmagazine. He is a former public school teacher.