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From submarines to suburbs selling a better America, 1939-1959
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Title
From submarines to suburbs [electronic resource] : selling a better America, 1939-1959 / Cynthia Lee Henthorn.
ISBN
0821416774 (cloth : alk. paper)
0821416782 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780821416778 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780821416785 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2006.
Physical Description
xv, 368 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale Community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2007. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 10, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-356) and index.
Contents
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.
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