TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beidler,Philip D.
TI  - The Victory Album: Reflections on the Good Life After the Good War
SN  - 9780817387143
AV  - E169 .V538 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Alabama
PB  - University of Alabama Press
KW  - United States
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Influence
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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