A kinder, gentler America : melancholia and the mythical 1950s / Mary Caputi.
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TextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.Description: x, 200 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: - 081664408x (hc : alk. paper)
- 081664408X (pb : alk. paper)
- 9780816644070 (hc : alk. paper)
- 9780816644087 (pb : alk. paper)
- Conservatism -- United States
- Depression, Mental -- Political aspects -- United States
- National characteristics, American
- Nineteen fifties
- Nostalgia -- United States
- Political culture -- United States
- Popular culture -- United States
- United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
- 973.921 22
- E169.12 .C274 2005
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American Window
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-188) and index.
The "Fifties," an American metaphor -- A vertiginous languor: modernity and melancholia -- Overripe America -- Making love with absence: neoconservatism and the Fifties -- X-ray vision and the powers of performance: letting go of the Fifties -- The Left reviews the "Fifties" -- Conclusion: America, a phoenix reborn (again).
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