Power Search
Low Price Guarantee
We Take School POs
A Consumers' Republic Lib/E: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
Contributor(s): White, Karen (Read by), Cohen, Lizabeth (Author)

View larger image

 ISBN:     ISBN-13: 9798200423705
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Retail: $29.99OUR PRICE: $21.89  
  Buy 25 or more:OUR PRICE: $20.09   Save More!
  Buy 100 or more:OUR PRICE: $19.19   Save More!


  WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD!   Click here for our low price guarantee

Binding Type: Compact Disc
Published: June 2018
Qty:
Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Consumer Behavior - General
- History | United States - 20th Century
- History | Social History
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life. Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the American Dream. Material goods came to embody the promise of America, and the power of consumers to purchase everything from vacuum cleaners to convertibles gave rise to the power of citizens to purchase political influence and effect social change. Yet despite undeniable successes and unprecedented affluence, mass consumption also fostered economic inequality and the fracturing of society along gender, class, and racial lines. In charting the complex legacy of our Consumers' Republic Lizabeth Cohen has written a bold, encompassing, and profoundly influential book.
 
Customer ReviewsSubmit your own review
 
To tell a friend about this book, you must Sign In First!