CHAPTER OUTLINE

Postwar economy Growth and prosperity Military spending International trade dominance Technological innovation Consumer demand GI Bill of Rights Enacted in 1944 Impact on eduction “Baby boom” Consumer culture Television Limited involvement for blacks Marketing and packaging Credit cards Shopping malls Growth of suburbs Rural-to-urban migration Levittowns Automobiles and roads “White flight” Great black migration Southern sources Urban North and Midwest Social effects Postwar conformity Corporate life Large corporations Managerial personality Women and cult of domesticity Search for community Joining organizations Church growth Religious revival Reassurance Norman Vincent Peale’s “positive thinking” Challenges to complacency Growing anxiety Intellectual critics Reinhold Niebuhr John Kenneth Galbraith’s Affluent Society John Keats’s Crack in the Picture Window David Riesman and The Lonely Crowd Youth Culture “Silent generation” Juvenile delinquency Rock ’n’ roll Origins Bridge between black and white music Elvis Presley Vehicle for youth revolt Controversy Alienation in the arts Drama Oppressiveness of mass culture Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee The novel The individual’s struggle for survival J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye From Here to Eternity by James Jones Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, et al. Painting Edward Hopper and desolate loneliness Abstract expressionism Violent and chaotic modern society Jackson Pollock William de Kooning, Mark Rothko, et al. The Beats Liberation of self-expression Greenwich Village background Howl by Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac’s On the Road Influences