{"id":9748,"date":"2022-02-02T17:16:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T16:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=199257"},"modified":"2022-02-02T17:31:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T16:31:11","slug":"americas-cold-war-culture-boom","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/americas-cold-war-culture-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Cold War culture boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Ellie Cawthorne\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 02 February 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>From artistic experimentation to an explosion in pop music, Louis Menand speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about American art, culture and ideas between 1945-65. 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