Title: Recasting America :
Authors: May, Lary.; May, Lary.; University of Minnesota.
Date: 1989
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Physical description: x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC class: E
Contents: Introduction / Lary May -- Did success spoil the United States? Dual representations in postwar America / Warren Susman with the assistance of Edward Griffin -- A matter of taste : corporate cultural hegemony in a mass-consumption society / Jackson Lears -- The reconstruction of progress : Charles Beard, Richard Hofstadter, and postwar historical thought / David W. Noble -- The politics of social science in postwar America / Terence Ball -- A life of learning / Carl E. Schorske -- Gideon's trumpet : sounding the retreat from legal realism / Norman L. Rosenberg -- Movie star politics : the Screen Actor's Guild, cultural conversion, and the Hollywood red scare / Lary May -- Explosive issues : sex, women and the bomb / Elaine Tyler May -- Ranch-house suburbia : ideals and realities / Clifford E. Clark, Jr.-- The art of cultural politics : from regionalism to abstract expressionism / Erika Doss -- Things to come : swing bands, bebop, and the rise of a postwar jazz scene / Lewis A. Erenberg -- To the battle royal : Ralph Ellison and the quest for black leadership in postwar America / John S. Wright -- Land of a thousand dances : youth, minorities, and the rise of rock and roll / George Lipsitz -- The irony of American culture abroad : Austria and the Cold War / Reinhold Wagnleitner.
Notes: Papers evolving from a national conference and speakers series, held 1987-1988 at the University of Minnesota and sponsored by its American Studies Program.