Beyond the gray flannel suit : books from the 1950s that made American culture

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Label

Beyond the gray flannel suit : books from the 1950s that made American culture

Title remainder

books from the 1950s that made American culture

Statement of responsibility

David Castronovo

Creator

• Castronovo, David

Subject

• Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• History
• American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
• Nineteen fifties

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"This examination and celebration of the literature and thought of the 1950s throws the enduring works of a golden era into high relief. An unconventional tour of a crucial period in 20th-century culture, the present book avoids sweeping surveys and gets to the heart of major achievement." "Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit shows how particular landmark books took on the hot-button subjects of the 1950s - race and religious difference; social class and the suburbs; the youth culture; rebellion, conformity, and groupthink; the telling conflicts over taste and judgment - and how, in the process, whether we realize it or not, this body of super-charged literature shaped today's American culture."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

810.9/0054

Index

index present

LC call number

PS225

LC item number

.C37 2004

Literary form

non fiction