Promised Land
How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 1929-1968
New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of SImon & Schuster, Inc., 2020.
Format: Book
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description: xix, 311 pages ; 24 cm
"A timely work of groundbreaking history explains how the American middle class ballooned at mid-century until it dominated the nation, showing who benefited and what brought the expansion to an end"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction -- A dream deferred -- Roosevelt to the rescue -- Hour of discontent -- The good war -- Postwar fog -- The middle-class model -- Cracks in the foundation -- Trying to cope -- Things fall apart -- The era in retrospect.
Subjects:
Middle class -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
United States -- History -- 20th century.
Middle class -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781982102708
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SOCIAL SCI Class Ste | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.