skip to content
Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.

From submarines to suburbs : selling a better America, 1939-1959
ClosePreview this item

From submarines to suburbs : selling a better America, 1939-1959

Author: Cynthia Lee Henthorn
Publisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2006.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
Rating:

Retrieving ratings and reviews data...  

 

Find a copy in the library

Retrieving... Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Cynthia Lee Henthorn
ISBN: 0821416774 9780821416778 0821416782 9780821416785
OCLC Number: 68693515
Description: xv, 368 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Cynthia Lee Henthorn.
More information:

Reviews

Retrieving WorldCat reviews...
Retrieving EMRO reviews...
Retrieving weRead reviews...
Retrieving GoodReads reviews...
Retrieving Amazon reviews...

Tags

Be the first.
Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.