Levine, Alan J.

"Bad old days" : the myth of the 1950s / Alan J. Levine. - New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, c2008. - 179 p. ; 24 cm.

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.

9781412807456 (alk. paper) 141280745X (alk. paper)

2008006896


United States--Social conditions--1945-

HN58 / .L48 2008

973.92