Linked e-resources
Details
Table of Contents
Peter von Zahn's Cold War Broadcasts to West Germany; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures; 1 Introduction; Notes; Part I Propaganda and Journalism; 2 Student and Soldier in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany; School, University, Marriage; A Corporal at Army Headquarters; Howling with the Wolves; Notes; 3 Survival; Happy Like a Fish Swimming Through the Fighting; The July 20, 1944 Coup Attempt and Christa's Arrest; A Last Second Escape; Notes; 4 Journalist at the Northwest German Radio Station; Zahn's Early Broadcasts.
Networks and Political ReorientationsAttacks from the Left and the Right; A New Assignment; Notes; Part II Networks and Contexts; 5 Public Audiences and Official Networks; Transmission Methods, Funding Sources, and Broadcast Themes; Official Networks; Zahn and American audiences; Notes; 6 Critical Images of the United States in the Federal Republic; Critiques of Liberal Democracy and the United States in the Interwar and Nazi Periods; Fears of Mass Society and Anti-Americanism in West Germany; Historians and Anti-Americanism in the Federal Republic; Notes; Part III Peter von Zahn's America.
7 Tradition and Modernity in American Culture and SocietyAmerican Communities: "A Bit Like Returning Home to the Good Old Times"; Education, Religion, and the Arts; Business Methods and Workers' Rights; Notes; 8 American Public Opinion: Optimistic but Often Ignorant; The Power of Money and the Role of the Press; Optimism, Moralism, and Isolationism; Ethnic Loyalties and Antipathies; Notes; 9 A Weak Executive, an Irresponsible Congress, and a Courageous Judiciary; President Eisenhower and American Foreign Policy: "Making the Cold War Comfortable."
The American Congress: Limited, Petty, and QuarrelsomeMcCarthyism; The Federal Judiciary; Notes; 10 From Understanding to Indignation: Zahn on American Racism and the Civil Rights Movement; African-American Civil Rights in the Eisenhower Era; A Hopeful and Apologetic View of American Race Relations; "It is of the greatest significance that the Negroes of Montgomery are not inclined in the direction of Communism"; Ethnic Hierarchies; Notes; Part IV Receptions; 11 Audience Responses; An Audience of Millions; Reactions to Zahn's Broadcasts; Zahn's Mailbox; Notes.
12 A Difficult Return to West GermanyAn International Documentary Film Production Company; Return to Germany; Crafting an Autobiography; Is America Leaving Us?; Notes; 13 Conclusion; Notes; Index.
Networks and Political ReorientationsAttacks from the Left and the Right; A New Assignment; Notes; Part II Networks and Contexts; 5 Public Audiences and Official Networks; Transmission Methods, Funding Sources, and Broadcast Themes; Official Networks; Zahn and American audiences; Notes; 6 Critical Images of the United States in the Federal Republic; Critiques of Liberal Democracy and the United States in the Interwar and Nazi Periods; Fears of Mass Society and Anti-Americanism in West Germany; Historians and Anti-Americanism in the Federal Republic; Notes; Part III Peter von Zahn's America.
7 Tradition and Modernity in American Culture and SocietyAmerican Communities: "A Bit Like Returning Home to the Good Old Times"; Education, Religion, and the Arts; Business Methods and Workers' Rights; Notes; 8 American Public Opinion: Optimistic but Often Ignorant; The Power of Money and the Role of the Press; Optimism, Moralism, and Isolationism; Ethnic Loyalties and Antipathies; Notes; 9 A Weak Executive, an Irresponsible Congress, and a Courageous Judiciary; President Eisenhower and American Foreign Policy: "Making the Cold War Comfortable."
The American Congress: Limited, Petty, and QuarrelsomeMcCarthyism; The Federal Judiciary; Notes; 10 From Understanding to Indignation: Zahn on American Racism and the Civil Rights Movement; African-American Civil Rights in the Eisenhower Era; A Hopeful and Apologetic View of American Race Relations; "It is of the greatest significance that the Negroes of Montgomery are not inclined in the direction of Communism"; Ethnic Hierarchies; Notes; Part IV Receptions; 11 Audience Responses; An Audience of Millions; Reactions to Zahn's Broadcasts; Zahn's Mailbox; Notes.
12 A Difficult Return to West GermanyAn International Documentary Film Production Company; Return to Germany; Crafting an Autobiography; Is America Leaving Us?; Notes; 13 Conclusion; Notes; Index.