From submarines to suburbs : selling a better America, 1939-1959 / Cynthia Lee Henthorn.
2006
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From submarines to suburbs : selling a better America, 1939-1959 / Cynthia Lee Henthorn.
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Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2006]
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©2006
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xv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
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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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-356) and index.
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English
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2007. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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0821416774 cloth alkaline paper
0821416782 paperback alkaline paper
9780821416778 cloth alkaline paper
9780821416785 paperback alkaline paper
0821416782 paperback alkaline paper
9780821416778 cloth alkaline paper
9780821416785 paperback alkaline paper
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