MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2008006896
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008 080215s2008 nju b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008006896
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050 00 $aHN58$b.L48 2008
082 00 $a973.92$222
100 1 $aLevine, Alan J.
245 10 $a"Bad old days" :$bthe myth of the 1950s /$cAlan J. Levine.
260 $aNew Brunswick :$bTransaction Publishers,$cc2008.
300 $a179 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe 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.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y1945-