"Bad old days" : the myth of the 1950s / Alan J. Levine.
Publication details: New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, c2008.Description: 179 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781412807456 (alk. paper)
- 141280745X (alk. paper)
- 973.92 22
- HN58 .L48 2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The myth and the problem -- The post-World War II era : its characteristics, achievements, and problems -- Race : the great American obsession -- The myth of McCarthyism -- Prosperity and poverty in the postwar era -- Men and women -- Conformity, the "silent generation," liberalism, and social criticism -- Postwar culture -- Seeds of disintegration? -- Post-Sputnik "declinism" -- Those suburbs--suburbia, disturbia, and the slurbs -- Cars : getting around, Gorp, and the "vaginal look" -- The economy and industry in the postwar era.