1951 : watershed year -- Antecedents : look back in wonder -- The nineteen fifties : the television upheaval -- The nineteen sixties : you've never had it so good -- The nineteen seventies : Britain takes the lead -- The nineteen eighties : Brits buy up the business -- The nineteen nineties :...

From the late 1930s until December 7, 1941, isolationism and an antipathy toward war in Europe were strong political currents in the US. However, once the US entered World War II, the entire apparatus of the US government was mobilized to “market” the war to Americans who were incredulous...