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| CHAPTER 32 | THROUGH THE PICTURE WINDOW: SOCIETY AND CULTURE, 1945-1960 | OVERVIEW |
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CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1944 |
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act |
| 1944 |
Invention of mechanical cotton picker |
| 1946 |
Saul Bellow, Dangling Man |
| 1946 |
Benjamin Spock, The Common Sense Book
of Baby and Child Care |
| 1947 |
The first Levittown constructed |
| 1949 |
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman |
| 1950 |
David Riesman, The Lonely Crowd |
| 1951 |
James Jones, From Here to Eternity |
| 1952 |
Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking |
| 1952 |
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man |
| 1954 |
“One nation under God” added to the Pledge of Allegiance |
| 1955 |
“In God We Trust” placed on money |
| 1956 |
Allen Ginsburg, Howl |
| 1956 |
John Keats, The Crack in the Picture Window |
| 1957 |
Peak of the baby boom |
| 1957 |
Jack Kerouac, On the Road |
| 1958 |
John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society |
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES |
After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: |
- Account for the emergence of a consumer culture in the prosperous postwar
era.
- Discuss the relationships among the baby boom, the growth of suburbs, the
youth culture, and consumerism in the 1950s.
- Describe the growth of suburbs in the United States after World War II.
- Illustrate the widespread conformity in American culture in the 1950s.
- Understand the ideas of the major critics of conformity.
- Explain the artistic and literary dissent beginning in the l950s.
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