Introduction: Patriotic pageantry in America -- Wake up, America : origins of modern patriotism -- Precious freight : the Freedom Train -- Capturing the streets for loyalty -- Springtime for Stalin in Mosinee -- "The Cold War belongs to us all" : patriotizing the American calendar -- The Cornwallises send regrets : historical commemoration in the 1950s -- Patriotic gore -- "Shame on them" : the decline of Cold War pageantry.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-206) and index.