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The Cold War had a dramatic impact on the United States and its foreign policy. However, when evaluating the confrontation with Russia, few have looked at the war and its implications on the homefront through the lens of college football. Kurt Kemper's historical monograph, //College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era,// examines American values and culture on the homefront from post-World War II through the 1960's. Kemper argues that Americans used college football as a cultural mechanism to rationalize changes they sometimes found alienating, to magnify American distinctiveness in the face of Soviet gains, and to vilify that which they found to be outside the bounds of respectability.