Nothing was more American in the 1950s than the TV quiz show, which illuminated and mirrored the hopes, dreams, fads and faults of a nation-come-of-age. Using the quiz show as video roadmap into the soul and zeitgeist of a proud republic, Mark Dunn playfully captures in this volume aspects of the iconography of a mid-century US within the context of TV game playing, prize-winning, and collective self-examination.