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Celebrity culture and the American dream : stardom and social mobility / Karen Sternheimer.
LIBRA HN57 .S774 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sternheimer, Karen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social mobility--United States.
- Social mobility.
- Fame--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Social classes--United States.
- Social classes.
- Celebrities--United States.
- Celebrities.
- American Dream.
- Fame--Social aspects--United States.
- Fame.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Contents:
- The American dream : celebrity, class, and social mobility
- Beyond subsistence : the rise of the middle class in the twentieth century
- Prosperity and wealth arrive : boom times and women's suffrage in the 1920s
- Pull yourself up by your bootstraps : personal failure and the Great Depression
- We're all in this together : collectivism and World War II
- Suburban utopia : the postwar middle class fantasy
- Is that all there is? : challenging the suburban fantasy in the sixties and seventies
- Massive wealth as moral reward : the reagan revolution and individualism
- Success just for being you : opportunity in the internet age.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-274) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415886789
- 0415886783
- 9780415886796
- 0415886791
- 9780203831496
- 0203831497
- OCLC:
- 700728803
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