In 1955, the United States Information Agency published a lavishly illustrated booklet called My America .
Belmonte shows, merely one of hundreds of pamphlets from this era written and distributed in an organized attemp.
Though hyperbolic, My America was, as Laura A.
Assembled ostensibly to document "the basic elements of a free dynamic society," the booklet emphasized cultural diversity, political freedom, and social mobility and made no mention of McCarthyism or the Cold War.
In 1955, the United States Information Agency published a lavishly illustrated booklet called My America