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The Victory Album : Reflections on the Good Life after the Good War

A vivid and penetrating history, personal and social, of growing up in post-1945 America A pervasive feeling at the end of World War II, notes Philip D. Beidler, was that Americans had "inherited the earth" and could look forward to a kind of golden age, the "Good Life after the Good...

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Autor principal: Beidler, Philip D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Alabama : University of Alabama Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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