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" "Bad old days" : "
Alan J. Levine
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BL
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589486
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b418705
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| Main Entry
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Levine, Alan J
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| Title & Author
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"Bad old days" : : the myth of the 1950s /\ Alan J. Levine
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| Publication Statement
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New Brunswick :: Transaction Publishers,, c2008
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179 p. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9781412807456 (alk. paper)
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: 141280745X (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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
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United States, Social conditions, 1945-
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973.92
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HN58.L48 2008
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HN58.L48 2008
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