A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America by Lizabeth Cohen

A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America

Lizabeth Cohen

576 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction economics history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life.Trumpeted as a means to p...

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