TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levine,Alan J.
TI  - "Bad old days": the myth of the 1950s 
SN  - 9781412807456 (alk. paper)
AV  - HN58 .L48 2008
U1  - 973.92 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New Brunswick
PB  - Transaction Publishers
KW  - United States
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1945-
N1  - 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
ER  -