Elaine Tyler May’s Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era is an insightful piece that strongly refutes the common assertion that the 1950’s were representative of traditional American values. May portrays 1950’s America as a place consumed with both the overt physical and covert mental battles against the “reds” during the Red Scare and the ensuing Cold War. In Homeward Bound, the institution of the family becomes a weapon with which to fight Communism and the home becomes the battlefield. May describes the dynamics of this situation, saying that the Red Scare was “an ideological struggle fought on a cultural background (11)”. In this struggle, America fought against the insidious force that was Communism, but also against th
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