"Bad old days"
Subtitle: the myth of the 1950s
By: Alan J. Levine.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9781412807456
Subjects: United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The myth and the problem; title: The post-World War II era : its characteristics, achievements, and problems; title: Race : the great American obsession; title: The myth of Mccarthyism; title: Prosperity and poverty in the postwar era; title: Men and women; title: Conformity, the "silent generation," liberalism, and social criticism; title: Postwar culture; title: Seeds of disintegration?; title: Post-sputnik declinism; title: Suburbia, disturbia, and the slurbs; title: Cars : getting around, Gorp, and the "vaginal look"; title: The economy and industry in the postwar era.