The anxieties of affluence : critiques of American consumer culture, 1939-1979 / Daniel Horowitz.
Publication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2004.Description: ix, 339 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 1558494324 (Cloth : alk. paper)
- Consumption (Economics) -- United States -- Psychological aspects
- Consumption (Economics) -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
- Intellectuals -- United States -- Attitudes
- Acquisitiveness -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Affluent consumers -- United States -- Psychology
- Consumption (Economics) -- United States -- Public opinion
- Wealth -- United States -- Public opinion
- Public opinion -- United States
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- HC110.C6 H577 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-317) and index.
1. Chastened Consumption: World War II and the Campaign for a Democratic Standard of Living -- 2. Celebratory Emigres: Ernest Dichter and George Katona -- 3. A Southerner in Exile, the Cold War, and Social Order: David M. Potter's People of Plenty -- 4. Critique from Within: John Kenneth Galbraith, Vance Packard, and Betty Friedan -- 5. From the Affluent Society to the Poverty of Affluence, 1960-1962: Paul Goodman, Oscar Lewis, Michael Harrington, and Rachel Carson -- 6. Consumer Activism, 1965-1970: Ralph Nader, Martin Luther King Jr., and Paul R. Ehrlich -- 7. The Energy Crisis and the Quest to Contain Consumption: Daniel Bell, Christopher Lasch, and Robert Bellah -- 8. Three Intellectuals and a President: Jimmy Carter, "Energy Crisis and the Crisis of Confidence". Epilogue: The Response to Affluence at the End of the Century. Tables: 1. Annual budget of the McMillin family, 1940. 2. Annual budget of the Griffin family, 1939. 3. Annual budget of the Case family, 1940. 4. Annual income distribution, 1977-1999.