Cold War Captives - Imprisonment, Escape, and Brainwashing - Paperback - 2009

Recreates a time when World War III seemed imminent. This book explores a central dimension of American culture and politics the postwar preoccupation with captivity. It reveals how menticide, the calculated destruction of individual autonomy, struck many Americans as a more immediate danger than nuclear annihilation.
Year of publication: 2009
Pagination: 352 pages, 29 b/w photographs
Format: Paperback