Anxieties of Affluence
Subtitle: Critques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: September 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9781558495043
Subjects: Consumer issues; Social history; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Second World War, 1939-1945; United States - 20th Century; Economics - Macroeconomics; Business & Economics; Sociology; Business/Economics; USA; Wealth; Americana; Popular Culture - General
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.