Synopsis
Andrew Graham-Dixon discusses life in America during the Cold War.
- Programme: Art of America
- Episode: What Lies Beneath
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2011
- History | America, 1713-1975 | The USA 1930-54 | Post-war America, 1945-1954
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