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Lindsey, Brink.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.
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The age of abundance...
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The age of abundance : how prosperity transformed America's politics and culture / Brink Lindsey.
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Lindsey, Brink.
New York, N.Y. : Collins, c2007.
Subjects
United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.
ISBN:
9780060747664
0060747668
Description:
394 p. ; 24 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
The realm of freedom -- Climbing Maslow's Pyramid -- Howl -- Signs and wonders -- Learning to fly -- Realignment -- In Borges' Library -- E pluribus unum?.
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Until the 1950s, the struggle to feed, clothe, and employ the nation drove most of American political life. From slavery to the New Deal, political parties organized around economic interests and engaged in fervent debate over the best allocation of agonizingly scarce resources. But with the explosion of the nationʾs economy in the years after World War II, a new set of needs began to emerge - a search for meaning and self-expression on one side, and a quest for stability and a return to traditional values on the other. In The Age of Abundance, Brink Lindsey offers a bold reinterpretation of the latter half of the twentieth century. In this sweeping history of postwar America, the tumult of racial and gender politics, the rise of the counterculture, and the conservative revolution of the 1980s and 1990s are portrayed in an entirely new light. Readers will learn how and why the contemporary ideologies of left and right emerged in response to the novel challenges of mass prosperity. The political ideas that created the culture wars, however, have now grown obsolete. As the Washington Post aptly summarized Lindseyʾs take on the contradictions of American politics, ʺ Republicans want to go home to the United States of the 1950s while Democrats want to work there.ʺ Struggling to replace todayʾs stale conflicts is a new consensus that mixes the social freedom of the left with the economic freedom of the right into a potentially powerful ethos of libertarianism. The Age of Abundance reveals the secret formula of this remarkable alchemy. The book is a breathtaking reevaluation of our recent past - and will change the way we think about the future.
Also includes information on abortion, African Americans, America, Aquarian awakening, beat bohemianism, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, capitalism, counterculture, crime, evangelical revival, family life, inequality of income, Richard Nixon, politics, religion, sexual mores, women, workplace, youth culture, etc.
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