When America Lost Its Innocence Maybe
No era was more invested in the myth than the boom years of the 1950s, when television arrived to beam back at us gift-wrapped images of our cheery, wide-eyed selves, laugh track included. But it was through television and the print media that the cracks began to show. The demagoguery of Joe McCarthy was exposed on live TV. The U-2 spy-plane scandal: imagine, the United States spied on the Soviets, and had lied about it!...