ONE
Consumption, Discipline, and Democracy: The "New Magazines" and
Reader's Digest
TWO
Reading the DigestWriting the World 24
THREE
Ambivalent Geography: Writing World Orders, 1922 to 1945 55
FOUR
The Beginnings of Cold War 83
FIVE
The Jeopardy of Detente 107
SIX
The "Second Cold War" 122
SEVEN
Denying Imperial Decline at the End of the Cold War 137
Conclusion 163
Appendix: Reader's Digest Readers: Demographic Profile, 1991 174