Visions of Belonging
Subtitle: Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960 (Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: August 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780231121705
Subjects: Popular culture; Second World War, 1939-1945; c 1945 to c 1960; History - U.S.; History: World; USA; Popular Culture - General; Sociology - Marriage & Family; United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000); History / United States / General; General; United States - General; 20th century; Arts, American; Family; History; United States
First sentence: IN THEIR EFFORTS TO ATTRACT THE WIDEST POSSIBLE AUDIENCE, THE PLANners of the 1940 New York World's Fair hired an actor as "official greeter," someone who would personify a figure made familiar by advertising, radio, film, and popular fiction.