Dee Garrison (1934–2009)
Autore di Apostles of Culture: The Public Librarian and American Society, 1876-1920
Opere di Dee Garrison
Opere correlate
Clio's Consciousness Raised: New Perspectives on the History of Women (1974) — Collaboratore — 59 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Garrison, Lora Doris
- Data di nascita
- 1934-10-18
- Data di morte
- 2009-07-23
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Nazione (per mappa)
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Cleburne, Texas, USA
- Luogo di morte
- East Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
- Istruzione
- University of California, Irvine (PhD)
California State College, Fullerton (BA) - Attività lavorative
- History professor, Livingston College
historian
History Professor, Rutgers University - Organizzazioni
- Peace History Society
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 4
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 108
- Popolarità
- #179,297
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 11
Still, the seeming self-congratulation with which Garrison approaches her favored topic would be more tolerable if she put her story in context by considering the creeping militarization that was the logic of mass industrial war in the first half of the twentieth century, and which informed the effort to create a viable strategy for nuclear war beyond a mere spasm attack. I also find it a tad easy for Garrison to proclaim that it was better to be "temporarily Red" rather than "permanently dead;" this is almost as triumphalist in its own way as the "End of History" Neo-Conservatives rejoicing in the wake of the demise of the Soviet Union.
However, there is one more point that I will give Garrison (who it turns out passed away in 2009 after a long academic career). This is when she links the authoritarian mindset of the Cold War civil defense "experts" with that of the "authorities" who have given us the "security theater" of the post-9/11 era. Whether this friction ultimately generates the sort of political mass activism that Garrison glorifies in her book (particularly when it comes to female political empowerment) is another question.… (altro)