Cold war constructions : the political culture of United States imperialism, 1945-1966 / edited by Christian G. Appy.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-330) and index.

Introduction: Struggling for the World / Christian G. Appy -- Slouching toward Bethlehem: Culture, Diplomacy, and the Origins of the Cold War in Vietnam / Mark Bradley -- Family Ties and Political Obligation: The Discourse of Adoption and the Cold War Commitment to Asia / Christina Klein -- Feeding Beggars: Class, Caste, and Status in Indo-U.S. Relations, 1947-1964 / Andrew J. Rotter -- America's "Best Propagandists": Italian Americans and the 1948 "Letters to Italy" Campaign / Wendy I. Wall -- Who's the Real Ambassador? Exploding Cold War Racial Ideology / Penny M. Von Eschen -- The Road to Vietnam: Modernization Theory in Fact and Fiction / Jonathan Nashel -- Discursive Subversions: Time Magazine, the CIA Overthrow of Musaddiq, and the Installation of the Shah / John Foran -- Eisenhower's Guatemalan Doodle, or: How to Draw, Deny, and Take Credit for a Third World Coup / Christian G. Appy --

"A World Made Safe for Diversity": The Vietnam Lobby and the Politics of Pluralism, 1945-1963 / James T. Fisher -- "We Are All Highly Adventurous": Fidel Castro and the Romance of the White Guerrilla, 1957-1958 / Van Gosse -- From Black Power to Civil Rights: Julian Mayfield and African American Expatriates in Nkrumah's Ghana, 1957-1966 / Kevin Gaines.