The Anxieties of Affluence
Subtitle: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: February 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781558494329
Subjects: Consumer issues; Social history; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Second World War, 1939-1945; Popular Culture - General; Economics - Macroeconomics; Social Science; United States; Sociology; USA; Psychological aspects; Wealth; Consumption (Economics); Consumer Behavior - General; Attitudes; Intellectuals; Moral and ethical aspects
First sentence: During World War II, millions of American consumers began to put depression conditions behind them and started to look forward to a peace that would enable them to extend their experience of prosperity by spending what they had saved.