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The anxieties of affluence: critiques of American consumer culture, 1939-1979
Daniel Horowitz
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Frontmatter
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Tables (page ix)
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Introduction (page 1)
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1. Chastened Consumption: World War II and the Campaign for a Democratic Standard of Living (page 20)
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2. Celebratory Émigrés: Ernest Dichter and George Katona (page 48)
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3. A Southerner in Exile, the Cold War, and Social Order: David M. Potter's People of Plenty (page 79)
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4. Critique from Within: John Kenneth Galbraith, Vance Packard, and Betty Friedan (page 101)
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5. From the Affluent Society to the Poverty of Affluence, 1960-1962: Paul Goodman, Oscar Lewis, Michael Harrington, and Rachel Carson (page 129)
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6. Consumer Activism, 1965-1970: Ralph Nader, Martin Luther King Jr., and Paul R. Ehrlich (page 162)
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7. The Energy Crisis and the Quest to Contain Consumption: Daniel Bell, Christopher Lasch, and Robert Bellah (page 203)
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8. Three Intellectuals and a President: Jimmy Carter, "Energy and the Crisis of Confidence" (page 225)
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Epilogue: The Response to Affluence at the End of the Century (page 245)
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Notes (page 257)
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Acknowledgments (page 319)
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Index (page 323)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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IMH | 101.2 (2005): 190-191 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/27792629 |
EnS | 5.4 (2004): 729-731 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/23700206. |
BHR | 80.3 (2006): 543-545 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/25097229 |
JAH | 92.1 (2005): 286-287 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3660656 |
AHR | 111.3 (2006): 875-876 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/ahr.111.3.875 |
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Published: 2005
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- 9781558495043 (paper)
- 9781613761106 (ebook)
- 9781558494329 (hardcover)