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001			ocn959979276
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005			20240726105029.0
008			161006s2016 maua ob 001 0 eng d
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020			_a9780674973732 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aUA25 _b.E485 2016
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aLinn, Brian McAllister, _e1
245	1	0	_aElvis's army : _bCold War GIs and the atomic battlefield / _cBrian McAllister Linn.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c(c)2016.
300			_a1 online resource (444 pages) : _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
520	0		_a"What kind of army wants the king of rock-n-roll? Elvis's Army explores the great military and social experiment that was the Cold War atomic army. Militarily, the US Army transformed for the revolution in warfare initiated by the nuclear weapons. Traumatized by Cold War reductions and Korea, it seized on the vision of a great atomic land war against the Soviet Union. It not only adapted a radically new way of fighting, but fundamental changes in its equipment, concepts, and training. Socially, the 1950s the service underwent even more of a transformation. In large part due to the draft, the Fifties Army became the nation's most racially and economically egalitarian institution, the only place where black and white, college graduates and illiterates, rich and poor, urban and rural had to live, work, and, if necessary, fight together. In return for their service, the army was expected to provide young males not only with military skills, but also education, technical training, entertainment, and moral instruction. This social transformation was nowhere more evident than with Elvis Presley. He entered the service a notorious musical rebel hated by adult society; he emerged two years later a clean-cut young all-American boy in the movie G.I. Blues. Elvis's Army is the first history of the US Army's transformation for the atomic battlefield. But it also reveals the cultural importance of the US Army in Fifties America, from draft calls to ROTC, from basic training to overseas service, from Madison Avenue to Hollywood, and from atomic maneuvers to rock-n-roll."-- _cProvided by publisher.
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505	0	0	_aPrologue -- _tThe army was coming apart -- _tThe catalyst of the Korean War -- _tThe atomic battlefield -- _tThe tools of modern war -- _tWho's in the army now? -- _tThe officer corps's generation gap -- _tTraining for nuclear war -- _tMarketing the new, improved army -- _tThe renovation of the American soldier -- _tNext stop is Vietnam? -- _tEpilogue.
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610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bArmy _xHistory _y20th century.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bArmy _xReorganization _xHistory _y20th century.
600	1	0	_aPresley, Elvis, _d1935-1977.
650		0	_aSociology, Military _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aDraft _xSocial aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aCold War.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1364256&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
942			_cOB _D _eEB _hUA _m2016 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC
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999			_c86620 _d86620
902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell