A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America [Original retail ed.] 0375707379, 978-0375707377
In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit o
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- "A Consumers’ Republic is a magnificent, path-breaking achievement. Lizabeth Cohen lays bare the deeply transformative impact of mass prosperity on the texture of American social, political, and cultural life in the post-World War II era - its triumphs and costs, as well as its limitations. An unflaggingly provocative, indispensable book." -- David Kennedy, author of Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
