An American History
THE GOLDEN AGE ★^943 automatic dishwashers, inexpensive long-distance telephone calls, and jet air travel. Services like electri ...
944 ★ CHAPTER 24 An Affluent Society The long-term trend toward fewer and larger farms continued. During the 1950s, the farm pop ...
THE GOLDEN AGE ★^945 The Growth of the West The modern West emerged in the postwar years. Unlike the 1930s, when most migrants t ...
946 ★ CHAPTER 24 An Affluent Society greatly from traditional urban centers in the East. Rather than consisting of downtown busi ...
THE GOLDEN AGE ★^947 War, insisted a reporter for House Beautiful magazine, was “the freedom offered by washing machines and dis ...
948 ★ CHAPTER 24 An Affluent Society tanks that had rolled off assembly lines in World War II, the region around the Great Lakes ...
THE GOLDEN AGE ★^949 choice. On the road, Americans were constantly reminded in advertising, television shows, and popular songs ...
950 ★ CHAPTER 24 An Affluent Society Frozen and prepared meals, exulted one writer in 1953, offered housewives “freedom from ted ...
THE GOLDEN AGE ★^951 During the postwar suburban boom, federal agencies continued to insure mortgages that barred resale of hous ...
952 ★ CHAPTER 24 An Affluent Society the North, greatly increasing the size of existing urban ghettos and creating entirely new ...
THE GOLDEN AGE ★^953 Americans except the maladjusted and fanatics shared the same liberal values of individualism, respect for ...
954 ★ CHAPTER 24 An Affluent Society to the evolution of American society. The idea of a unified Judeo-Christian tradition overl ...
THE GOLDEN AGE ★^955 People’s Capitalism Free enterprise seemed an odd way of describing an economy in which a few large corpora ...
956 ★ CHAPTER 24 An Affluent Society to extreme conclusions. He called for turning over to the private sector virtually all gove ...
THE EISENHOWER ERA ★^957 believed, tolerated or encouraged immorality. Republican control of the presi- dency did not lessen con ...
958 ★ CHAPTER 24 An Affluent Society his ordinary upbringing, war service, and close-knit family, Nixon denied the accusations. ...
THE EISENHOWER ERA ★^959 minister of Great Britain at age seventy-seven, Charles DeGaulle, who assumed the presidency of France ...
960 ★ CHAPTER 24 An Affluent Society multibillion-dollar project. But automobile manufacturers, oil companies, suburban builders ...
THE EISENHOWER ERA ★^961 Massive Retaliation Soon after he entered office, Eisenhower approved an armistice that ended fighting ...
962 ★ CHAPTER 24 An Affluent Society Geneva, Switzerland, with Nikita Khrushchev, the new Soviet leader, at the first “summit” c ...
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