A kinder, gentler America
Subtitle: melancholia and the mythical 1950s
By: Mary Caputi.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Nineteen fifties; National characteristics, American; Popular culture -- United States; Nostalgia -- United States; Depression, Mental -- Political aspects -- United States; Political culture -- United States; Conservatism -- United States; United States -- Civilization -- 1945-; United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989; United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The "Fifties," an American metaphor; title: A vertiginous languor: modernity and melancholia; title: Overripe America; title: Making love with absence: neoconservatism and the Fifties; title: X-ray vision and the powers of performance: letting go of the Fifties; title: The Left reviews the "Fifties"; title: Conclusion: America, a phoenix reborn (again).