Visions of Belonging
Subtitle: Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960 (Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: April 24, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780231121712
Subjects: c 1945 to c 1960; History; History - U.S.; History: American; Sociology; USA; Popular Culture - General; Sociology - Marriage & Family; United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000); History / United States / General; Social History; United States - 20th Century; United States - General; 20th century; Arts, American; Family; Popular culture; 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.