This is Who We Were
Subtitle: in the 1950s
Publisher: Grey House Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Amenia, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9781619251793
Description: Takes a look at the decade in America when optimism was high and confidence was strong and presents American history through the eyes and ears of everyday Americans. Representing all classes, dozens of occupations, and all regions of the country, this book includes 34 family profiles -- their life at home, at work, and in their community -- with lots of photos and images of the time, including an immigrant just learning the ropes, a physician whose family lived a comfortable middle class life in Southern comfort, and an heiress to a family fortune.
Notes: "Our jobs - Our clothes - Our leisure - Our day to day - What we paid for rent & food - What we read - What we watched - What we ate - How we traveled - Plus: U.S. Census comparisons & rankings" - Cover.
Table of contents: title: Profiles; title: Historical snapshots; title: Economy of the times; title: All around us : what we said, wrote, read & listened to; title: Census data