American Decades
"Difference Between Victory and Defeat"
Magazine article
By: Willard Bascom
Date: March 18, 1957
Source: Bascom, Willard. "Difference Between Victory and Defeat." Life, March 18, 1957, 150, 153–154, 159–160, 162.
About the Author: Willard Bascom (1916–2000) attended Springfield College and the Colorado School of Mines. He was as a research engineer, heading up Seafinders, Inc. and Ocean Science and Engineering. Bascom taught at a number of different institutions, including the Scripps Institute of Oceanography and California State University Long Beach. He authored three filmscripts and at least five books. In the 1950s, he served as a delegate to the International Geophysical Year Conferences on Oceanography.
Introduction
America long considered herself to be protected by two oceans and not directly threatened by anyone. No country in North America was viewed as a threat. By establishing...
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- Communist Paranoia
- Chesterfield Cigarettes Advertisements
- "The Two-Income Family"
- "Homogenized Children of New Suburbia"
- Seduction of the Innocent
- Davy Crockett
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- "Situations Wanted"
- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
- "Howl"
- "Difference Between Victory and Defeat"
- "The Colossal Drive-In"
- The American Teenager
- The Other America
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
