Farewell to prosperity : wealth, identity, and conflict in postwar america / Lisle A. Rose ; jacket design, Kristie Lee ; interior design and composition, Mindy Basinger Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, Lisle A., 1936-2021, author.

Contributor:

Lee, Kristie, bookjacket designer.

Hill, Mindy Basinger, designer, arranger of music.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

United States.

United States--Economic conditions--1945-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (492 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Money and race have composed the master narratives of American history. But the civil rights impulse of the past fifty years with its vigorous supporting scholarship has elevated the importance of the latter while unwarrantedlyeclipsing the central place of the former. Yet it was the demands of a capitalist order grounded in a money economy run by white male Protestants that until quite recently made racial (and many would argue gender) oppression so attractive and, in some cases, and in one region, imperative. From the outset, life in the United States has been defined by a blind embrace of business and commerce, a rabid quest for wealth, and a persistent economic overreach enveloped in a widespread obsession with evangelical religion and personal salvation.

Contents:

Preface

1. Schism in the soul

2. Flush times

3. Cold War imprisonment

4. Jacob's ladder

5. Troubles in the making

6. Varieties of dissent

7. Liberal overreach

8. Volte face

9. Back to the future

10. Conservative overreach

Notes

Select bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 21, 2014).

ISBN:

9780826273239

0826273238

OCLC:

885456080