Beidler, Philip D. <br/><br/>
The Victory Album  Reflections on the Good Life After the Good War. 

 - Alabama :  University of Alabama Press,  (c)2010. 
 - 1 online resource (292 pages) 
<br/><br/> Description based upon print version of record. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Reds --  A credit to their race --  China magic --  A tale of two task forces --  How the Holocaust didn't become current events --  The war of the generals for the presidency --  Is this all? --  Name your poison --  Mastering the curriculum --  The fifty-fives --  The end of the world --  I was a 1950s teenage media junkie --  Remembering On the beach --  American the ecumenical --  It wasn't all Elvis --  Let's play Dien Bien Phu. 
<br/><br/> A vivid and penetrating history, personal and social, of growing up in post-1945 America   A pervasive feeling at the end of World War II, notes Philip D. Beidler, was that Americans had "inherited the earth" and could look forward to a kind of golden age, the "Good Life after the Good War." But this good life-for all its genuine possibilities-was only accessible to some and was countered by racial tensions, the fear of communism and nuclear war, gender inequalities, and a rising consumer culture, among other problems and anxieties.   In these essays-a combination of personal remembran 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780817387143 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>United States.<br/>World War, 1939-1945.<br/>World War, 1939-1945--Influence.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E169  / .V538 2010