The Kitchen Debate and Cold War consumer politics : a brief history with documents / Shane Hamilton, Sarah Phillips

Object Details

Author

Hamilton, Shane 1976-

Phillips, Sarah T. 1974-

NMAHMAI copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment.

Contents

Part One: Introduction: The Kitchen Debate in historical context : The Cold War, containment, and "peaceful competition" ; The politics of abundance ; The culture of containment ; The politics of food and farms -- Part Two: The documents : 1. The Kitchen Debate ; Selling the American way ; U.S. Ambassador's telegram on plans for the American National Exhibition, November 17, 1958 / Llewellyn E. Thompson ; Office of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, Kitchens of today and tomorrow stated for Moscow Exhibition, February 9, 1959 ; Office of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, Cooking Display in Moscow to feature American dishes, May 13, 1959 ; Letter to President Dwight Eisenhower, July 10, 1959 / Jerry Marlatt ; Nixon goes to Moscow ; The two worlds: a day-long debate, July 25, 1959 ; A talk to the point, July 25, 1959 / Ye. Litoshko ; First day, first impressions, July 26, 1959 / V. Osipov ; What the facts say, July 28, 1959 / Vl. Zhukov ; Home economist demonstrates convenience foods, July 1959 ; The miracle kitchen, March 1959 / Robert Lerner ; Everything for Soviet man, August 5, 1959 ; Responses to Nixon's visit ; U.S. diplomat's telegram on the American National Exhibition, September 8, 1959 / Edward L. Freers ; Favorable comments on exhibition, September 1959 ; Unfavorable comments on exhibition, September 1959 ; On Nixon's visit to the Urals, July 31, 1959 / Ye. Litoshko ; Boy, did he tell them off!, July 26, 1959 / Bill Mauldin ; Speech in Dnepropetrovsk, July 28, 1959 / Nikita Khrushchev

2. Consumers and consensus ; Capitalist consumer citizens ; Why we eat better, November 1951 / Alex Henderson ; Speech on modern food distribution, October 20, 1958 / John A. Logan ; The affluent society, 1958 / John Kenneth Galbraith ; Split-level living, March 9, 1960 / Herblock ; Socialist consumer citizens ; Report on purchasing power of Soviet workers, 1953 / Edmund Nash ; Speech on the 1959 Soviet seven-year economic plan, January 1959 / Nikita Khrushchev ; Speech on communist youth and consumerism, January 1959 / V. Ye. Semichastny ; 3. An easier life for our housewives ; A servantless kitchen? ; How to manage without a maid, 1942 / Lita Price and Harriet Bonnet ; Goodbye mammy, hello mom, March 1947 ; You have 1001 servants in your kitchens, March 1951 / Jean Harris ; Whether you build, buy or modernize, 1953 / Youngstown Kitchens ; The can-opener cookbook, 1952 / Poppy Cannon ; Revolution in the kitchen, February 15, 1957 ; The I hate to cook book, 1960 / Peg Bracken ; Specialist kitchens ; The woman in Soviet life, March 1959 / Maria Ovsyannikova ; Technology on the march, 1959 / R. Podol'nyi ; Reflections on the American exhibition, August 23, 1959 / Marietta Shaginian ; Is there a science of the home?, October 1964 / I. Luchkova and A. Sikachev

4. Down on the farm ; Abundance and rivalry ; Farmer Khrushchev, August 10, 1959 / Edmund K. Faltermayer ; Speech in Des Moines, Iowa, September 22, 1959 / Nikita Khrushchev ; The problems of plenty ; Speech on the farm problem and the policy choices, February 1958 / John Kenneth Galbraith ; The farmer in the space age, October 7, 1959 / Erwin D. Canham ; Agricultural diplomacy ; Memo to the president re tour of the Soviet Union, July 30, 1963 / Orville Freeman ; The significance of four million tons of U.S. wheat for food consumption in the USSR, October 15, 1963 / U.S. Central Intelligence Agency ; Khrushchev in wheat field, August 1964 / U.S. Information Agency

Summary

Materials ancillary to the "debate" or exchanges between Richard M. Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev at the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959

2014

20th century

1955-1965

1945-1991

1945-

Type

Books

History

Physical description

xv, 171 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place

United States

Soviet Union

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Cold War--Social aspects

Consumption (Economics)--History

Foreign relations

Economic conditions

Social conditions

Record ID

siris_sil_1107057

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0