Real Phonies: Cultures of Authenticity in Post-World War II America
"Abigail Cheever’s study of authenticity is an original and important contribution to the literary and cultural history of the postwar U.S. She provides elegant readings of a compelling array of texts and addresses the reader in a lucid and admirably restrained prose style."--Catherine Jurca, author ofWhite Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel