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The anxieties of affluence : critiques of American consumer culture, 1939-1979 /

"This book charts the reactions of prominent American writers to the unprecedented prosperity of the decades following World War II. It begins with an examination of Lewis Mumford's wartime call for "democratic" consumption and concludes with an analysis of the origins of Preside...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Horowitz, Daniel, 1938- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Chastened consumption: World War II and the campaign for a democratic standard of living
  • Celebratory émigrés: Ernest Dichter and George Katona
  • A southerner in exile, the Cold War, and social order: David M. Potter's People of plenty
  • Critique from within: John Kenneth Galbraith, Vance Packard, and Betty Friedan
  • From the affluent society to the poverty of affluence, 1960-1962: Paul Goodman, Oscar Lewis, Michael Harrington, and Rachel Carson
  • Consumer activism, 1965-1970: Ralph Nader, Martin Luther King Jr., and Paul R. Ehrlich
  • The energy crisis and the quest to contain consumption: Daniel Bell, Christopher Lasch, and Robert Bellah
  • Three intellectuals and a president: Jimmy Carter, "Energy and the crisis of confidence"
  • The response to affluence at the end of the century.