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Beyond the gray flannel suit : books from the 1950s that made American culture

"This examination and celebration of the literature and thought of the 1950s throws the enduring works of a golden era into high relief. An unconventional tour of a crucial period in 20th-century culture, the present book avoids sweeping surveys and gets to the heart of major achievement." "Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit shows how particular landmark books took on the hot-button subjects of the 1950s - race and religious difference; social class and the suburbs; the youth culture; rebellion, conformity, and groupthink; the telling conflicts over taste and judgment - and how, in the process, whether we realize it or not, this body of super-charged literature shaped today's American culture."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2004
Continuum, New York, 2004
Criticism, interpretation, etc
207 pages ; 24 cm
9780826416261, 0826416268
54806373
Breaking Through
Holden, Dean, and Allen
Angst, Inc
Rough Customers
The New Observers
The Eggheads
WASP, Catholic, Black, Jewish
Naturalism Reinvented
Includes index