The victory album : reflections on the good life after the good war / / Philip D. Beidler

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825629503321
• Autore: Beidler Philip D
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2010
• ISBN: 0-8173-8714-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.918
• Soggetti: World War, 1939-1945 - Influence; United States Civilization 1945-; United States Social conditions 1945-; United States Social life and customs 1945-1970
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Reds -- A credit to their race -- China magic -- A tale of two task forces -- How the Holocaust didn't become current events -- The war of the generals for the presidency -- Is this all? -- Name your poison -- Mastering the curriculum -- The fifty-fives -- The end of the world -- I was a 1950's teenage media junkie -- Remembering On the beach -- American the ecumenical -- It wasn't all Elvis -- Let's play Dien Bien Phu.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 War." But this good life-for all its genuine possibilities-was only accessible to some and was countered by racial tensions, the fear of communism and nuclear war, gender inequalities, and a rising consumer culture, among other problems and anxieties.