Elvis’s Army : : Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield /

Elvis’s Army : : Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield / / Brian McAllister Linn.

When the U.S. Army drafted Elvis Presley in 1958, it quickly set about transforming the King of Rock and Roll from a rebellious teen idol into a clean-cut GI. Trading in his gold-trimmed jacket for standard-issue fatigues, Elvis became a model soldier in an army facing the unprecedented challenge of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Linn, Brian McAllister,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]
©2016
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; 20 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • 1. The Army Was Coming Apart
  • 2. The Catalyst of the Korean War
  • 3. The Atomic Battlefield
  • 4. The Tools of Modern War
  • 5. Who’s in the Army Now?
  • 6. The Officer Corps’s Generation Gap
  • 7. Training for Nuclear War
  • 8. Marketing the New, Improved Army
  • 9. The Renovation of the American Soldier
  • 10. Next Stop Is Vietnam?
  • Epilogue
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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