280 Pages
by
Routledge
For many, especially those on the political left, the 1950s are the bad old days. The widely accepted list of what was allegedly wrong with that decade includes the Cold War, McCarthyism, racial segregation, self-satisfied prosperity, and empty materialism. The failings are coupled with ignoring poverty and other social problems, complacency, conformity, the suppression of women, and puritanical... Read more
1 The Myth and the Problem, 2 The Post-World War II Era: Its Characteristics, Achievements, and Problems, 3 Race: The Great American Obsession, 4. The Myth of McCarthyism, 5 Prosperity and Poverty in the Postwar Era, 6 Men and Women, 7 Conformity, the “Silent Generation,” Liberalism, and Social Criticism, 8 Postwar Culture, 9 Seeds of Disintegration?, 10 Post-Sputnik “Declinism”, 11 Those Suburbs—Suburbia, Disturbia, and the Slurbs, 12 Cars: Getting Around, Gorp, and the “Vaginal Look”, 13 The Economy and Industry in the Postwar Era, Index
Biography
Alan J. Levine
