| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

The Pentagon's Battle for the American Mind: The Early Cold War. By Lori Lyn Bogle. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. xii, 220 pp. $34.00, ISBN 1-58544-378-6.)

As Lori Lyn Bogle demonstrates, the twentieth-century American military was determined to foster a more resolute, morally centered, and religiously defined national character. Military officers admired the revolutionary generation, but in their own time they perceived an alarming degree of apathy, immorality, and uncertainty regarding the nation's historically ordained role. By the early Cold War, they concluded that the challenge of godless Soviet aggression abroad and the dangers of insidious Communist subversion at home required new efforts to create Valley Forge experiences for the American public.

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