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"The Unites States in 1920, even after its involvement in a cataclysmic world war, was still essentially a small-government, small-town agricultural nation. Today, in the sixties, our nineteenth-century rural values have been largely displaced, and we live in a society and a world which have been drastically transformed. George E. Mowry writes if events and times that many of us have lived through: the Depression, the rise of totalitarianism, the Second World War, and of course the fearful show more cold war with its constant threat of nuclear annihilation. Our closeness to these events has tended to obscure our perception of some deeper and more subtle currents which have shaped our society: urbanization-consumption economy. The rise of a modern American urban mentality has had a major influence on our domestic institutions and values; the creation of a "mass ad" culture has had an impact not only on our social mores but also on our domestic and foreign policies. In thus putting our recent history into perspective and suggesting fresh interpretation, Mr. Mowry has written an important and exciting book, which is the fifth volume to be published in The Making of America, a six-volume series designed to present new historical interpretations with clarity and compactness."--Publisher. show lessTags
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- The Urban Nation, 1920-1960
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