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Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture (Film and Culture) (Updated Edition) by Thomas Patrick Doherty Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-231-12953-X / 023112953X ISBN-13: 978-0-231-12953-4 / 9780231129534 Conventional wisdom holds that television was a co-conspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist and handmaiden to McCarthyism. But Thomas Doherty argues that, through the influence of television, America actually became a more open and tolerant place |