How Long to Read Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers

How Long Does it Take to Read Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 20 minutes to read Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers by Arthur Redding

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Cold War was unique in the way films, books, television shows, colleges and universities, and practices of everyday life were enlisted to create American political consensus. This coercion fostered a seemingly hegemonic, nationally unified perspective devoted to spreading a capitalist, socially conservative notion of freedom throughout the world to fight Communism. In Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers: Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War, Arthur Redding traces the historical contours of this manufactured consent by considering the ways in which authors, playwrights, and directors participated in, responded to, and resisted the construction of Cold War discourses. The book argues that a fugitive resistance to the status quo emerged as writers and activists variously fled into exile, went underground, or grudgingly accommodated themselves to the new spirit of the times. To this end, Redding examines work by a wide swath of creators, including essayists (W. E. B. Du Bois and F. O. Matthiessen), novelists (Ralph Ellison, Patricia Highsmith, Jane Bowles, and Paul Bowles), playwrights (Arthur Miller), poets (Sylvia Plath), and filmmakers (Elia Kazan and John Ford). The book explores how writers and artists created works that went against mainstream notions of liberty and offered alternatives to the false dichotomy between capitalist freedom and totalitarian tyranny. These complex responses and the era they reflect had and continue to have profound effects on American and international cultural and intellectual life, as can be seen in the connections Redding makes between past and present.

How long is Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers?

Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers by Arthur Redding is 380 pages long, and a total of 95,000 words.

This makes it 128% the length of the average book. It also has 116% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 39 minutes to read Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers aloud.

What Reading Level is Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers?

Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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