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Diners, bowling alleys and trailer parks : chasing the American dream in the postwar consumer culture / Andrew Hurley.
Lippincott Library HC110.C6 H87 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hurley, Andrew, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consumption (Economics)--United States--History--20th century.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Diners (Restaurants)--United States--History--20th century.
- Diners (Restaurants).
- Middle class.
- History.
- Trailers.
- Bowling alleys.
- United States.
- Bowling alleys--United States--History--20th century.
- Trailers--United States--History--20th century.
- Middle class--United States--History--20th century.
- United States--Economic conditions--1945-.
- Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 409 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, [2001]
- Summary:
- An entertaining and revealing history of diners, bowling alleys, and trailer parks charts the hopes, dreams, fears, and hidden divisions of America's postwar middle class. Through these three quintessentially American institutions, Hurley examines the struggle of blue-collar Americans to attain the good life after two long decades of depression and war. 30 halftones.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-390) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0465031862
- OCLC:
- 44634306
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