The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979 by Daniel Horowitz

The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979

Daniel Horowitz

339 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

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This book charts the reactions of prominent American writers to the unprecedented prosperity of the decades following World War II. It begins with an examination of Lewis Mumford's wartime call for "democratic" consumption and concludes with an an...

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