The Noir Forties: The American People From Victory to Cold War

From one of our finest cultural historians, The Noir Forties is a vivid reexamination of America’s postwar period, that ?age of anxiety” characterized by the dissipation of victory dreams, the onset of the Red Scare, and a nascent resistance to the growing Cold War consensus. Richard Lingeman examines a brief but momentous and crowded time, the years betwee More »