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by Andrew Hurley

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The years immediately following World War II witnessed a dramatic transformation of America's working-class suburbs, driven by postwar prosperity and a burgeoning consumer culture. Chrome and neon were the new currency in this revitalized consumer culture, and no postwar consumer products trafficked more heavily in this currency than diners, bowling alleys, and trailer parks. Through these three quintessentially American institutions, Andrew Hurley examines the struggle of blue-collar Americans to attain the good life after two long decades of depression and war. Diners, bowling alleys, and trailer parks shed their hardscrabble origins and unsavory reputation in the postwar years, becoming places where blue-collar families announced and celebrated their arrival into the middle class. Touted as a force for egalitarianism and inclusion, they nonetheless became, more often than not, battlegrounds where deep racial, ethnic, class, gender, and generational divides were revealed. Andrew Hurley tells this story of the humble origins, explosive growth, and gradual decline of the diner, bowling alley, and trailer park in expert fashion. This is substantial cultural and social history that also knows how to entertain as it opens a revealing window onto the larger history of postwar America.

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  • Title Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in Postwar Consumer Culture
  • Author Andrew Hurley
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780465031863 / 0465031862
  • Weight 1.31 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.57 x 5.92 x 1.42 in (21.77 x 15.04 x 3.61 cm)
  • Reading level 1440
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Economic conditions - 1945-, Middle class - United States - History -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00058530
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.309
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