Compare And Contrast Hamilton And Phillips
I found Hamilton and Phillips’ approach both very effective and persuasive. The way in which they present the Cold War as just not the standard war of words as it so often taught in American public schools. Instead of presenting the Cold War era as a time period in which the United States and the U.S.S.R. were constantly making vague threats to each other about the superiority of their military weaponry Hamilton and Phillips present the first two decades of the Cold War as really a battle of political economy and cultures. In particular, the use of kitchens and the home lifestyle as a type of advertisement for how well life in America was and how the freedom of choice gave the consumer more power over manufactures. By comparison the Socialist
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Three key lines of battle were mapped out at the Kitchen Debate: the role of government in shaping economic abundance, the role of women in modern society, and the global politics of food production and consumption.” This nuance approach to the examination of the Cold War presents a much more detailed and effective explanation how the war was fought. Instead of victories measured on physical battlefields the Cold War was much more a war of propaganda and spreading economic ideology. In Document one Llewellyn E. Thompson expresses concern for how much propaganda is planned to be at the American National Exhibition Moscow: “It would appear to me that in general there is too much emphasis upon the propaganda aspects of the exhibit and that an effort should be made to make our propaganda objectives less evident.” Here it is obvious to see that it was a predetermined goal of those in charge of exhibition to make the U.S. and the American way of life seem exceptional in every way. According to what Thompson later says it becomes all the more evident that the goal of the exhibition was to show the Russian people how life in America and democracy backed capitalism offered more and better standard of living than socialism could. He says: “In my opinion out primary theme should be that, regardless of how it is achieved, the U.S. has superiority in both quality and quantity in all aspects of its cultural and economic life. We should endeavor to make the Soviet people dissatisfied with the share of the Russian pie which they now receive and make them realize that the
Three key lines of battle were mapped out at the Kitchen Debate: the role of government in shaping economic abundance, the role of women in modern society, and the global politics of food production and consumption.” This nuance approach to the examination of the Cold War presents a much more detailed and effective explanation how the war was fought. Instead of victories measured on physical battlefields the Cold War was much more a war of propaganda and spreading economic ideology. In Document one Llewellyn E. Thompson expresses concern for how much propaganda is planned to be at the American National Exhibition Moscow: “It would appear to me that in general there is too much emphasis upon the propaganda aspects of the exhibit and that an effort should be made to make our propaganda objectives less evident.” Here it is obvious to see that it was a predetermined goal of those in charge of exhibition to make the U.S. and the American way of life seem exceptional in every way. According to what Thompson later says it becomes all the more evident that the goal of the exhibition was to show the Russian people how life in America and democracy backed capitalism offered more and better standard of living than socialism could. He says: “In my opinion out primary theme should be that, regardless of how it is achieved, the U.S. has superiority in both quality and quantity in all aspects of its cultural and economic life. We should endeavor to make the Soviet people dissatisfied with the share of the Russian pie which they now receive and make them realize that the