THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY
General Books
Charles C. Alexander, Holding the Line: The Eisenhower Era, 1952-61 (1975)
Robert H. Bremner and Gary W. Reichard (eds.), Reshaping America: Society and Institutions, 194560 (1982)
William Chafe, The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II (1999 edn.)
Dale Carter (ed.), Cracking the Ike Age (1992); Paul Carter, Another Part of the Fifties (1983)
John Patrick Diggins, The Proud Decades: America in War and Peace, 1941-60 (1988)
J. K. Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958)
Robert Griffith and Paula Baker (eds.), Major Problems in American History since 1945 (2001edn.),
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David Halberstam, The Fifties (1993).
Specialised books
Eric Barnouw, Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television (1990 edn.)
Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties (1960); James
Campbell, This is the Beat Generation (1999)
Ann Charters (ed.), The Penguin Book of the Beats (1992)
David Caute, The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower (1978)
Barbara Ehrenreich, The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight From Commitment (1983)
Sara M. Evans, Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America (1989)
Richard M. Fried, Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective (1990)
Herbert J. Gans, The Levittowners (1967)
James Gilbert, A Cycle of Outrage: Americaâs Reaction to the Juvenile Delinquent in the 1950s (1986)
Peter Guralnick, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley (1994)
Andrew Jamison and Roy Eyerman, Seeds of the Sixties (1994)
Michael S. Mayer (ed), The Eisenhower Presidency and the 1950s (1999)
Thomas C. Reeves, Life and Times of Joe McCarthy (1982)
C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite (1956)
William Whyte, The Organisation Man (1956).
See also, the novels: James Baldwin, Giovanniâs Room (1956); Saul Bellow, Seize the Day (1956);
Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957); J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951); Mary McCarthy, The
Groves of Academe (1953)
Articles
Beth Bailey, ÎRebels Without a Cause?: Teenagers in the 1950sâ, History Today, 40 (Feb 1990),
pp.25-31 (also reprinted in Griffith and Baker (eds), Major Problems in American History since 1945
(2001 edn.)
K.A. Cuordileone, ÎãPolitics in the Age of Anxietyä: Cold War Political Culture and the Crisis in
American Masculinityâ 1949-60â, JAH (Sep 2000)
Marybeth Hamilton, ÎSexual Politics and African-American Music; or, Placing Little Richard in Historyâ,
History Workshop Journal, 46, 1998, pp.161-76
Joanne Meyerowitz , ÎBeyond the Feminine Mystique: A Reassessment of Postwar Mass Culture, 19461958â, Journal of American History, 79, 4. (Mar., 1993), pp. 1455-1482