Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
Marshall’s plan to keep men overseas provoked a furious reaction. Families of servicemen blasted their representatives with letters and buried congressional offices in baby shoes, all bearing tags reading BRING DADDY HOME. On a single day in December, Truman’s office estimated that it had received sixty thousand postcards demanding the troops’ retu
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Far below, they see a dim world of processed food, obesity, divorce, addiction, online-education scams, stagnant wages, rising morbidity rates—and they pledge to do whatever they can to keep their children from falling. They’ll stay married, cook organic family dinners, read aloud at bedtime every night, take out a crushing mortgage on a house in a
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