Cold War Country Lory Widmer Hess Owens begins by examining the

Owens begins by examining the lives and work of the nineteenth-century Black female orator-activists Maria W

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Radicalism at the Crossroads offers a sustained and in-depth analysis of the political thought and activism of black women radicals during the Cold War period and adds a new dimension to our understanding of this tumultuous and violent time in United States history

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Cold War Country Lory Widmer Hess Owens begins by examining theCountry music maintains a special, decades long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn't just happen. This readable history reveals how country music's Nashville based business leaders on Music Row created partnerships with the Pentagon to sell their audiences on military service while selling the music to servicemembers. Beginning in the 1950s, the military flooded armed forces airwaves with the music, hosted tour dates at bases