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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454375603321

Autore

Henthorn Cynthia Lee <1963->

Titolo

From submarines to suburbs [[electronic resource] ] : selling a better America, 1939-1959 / / Cynthia Lee Henthorn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8214-4205-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Disciplina

381.0973/09044

Soggetti

Marketing - United States - History - 20th century

Advertising - United States - History - 20th century

Consumer behavior - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

United States Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-356) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : legacy of the postwar commercial fallout -- Weapons of mass disorder : impediments to mobilization -- Weapons of mass persuasion : mobilization through symbol management -- Positioning machine age heroes and wartime types -- Glimpses into a "better America" -- Home front war : the campaign to save the American way -- Hygienic solutions for the "house of tomorrow" -- Postwar progress : myth or reality? -- Wartime skeptics and the "world of tomorrow" -- What did happen to the dreamworld? realities of the postwar commercial fallout -- The cold war's commercial fallout -- Afterword : the "better America" today.