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When We Liked Ike - Looking for Postwar America (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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When We Liked Ike - Looking for Postwar America (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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After World War II, the prevalent self-image among America's white
middle class was one of affluence, moral superiority, and
contentment. This image is reflected in photographs in both
advertising and the media during the late 1940s and 1950s showing
perfect citizens and their families at work and at play. Many of
these apparently candid photographs were in fact created by
professional studio photographers to portray the way most
middle-class Americans wanted to present themselves. But what many
contemporary artists and intellectuals saw instead of this idyllic
picture was widespread complacency and conformity, as well as
racism, poverty, political witch hunts, and alienation. Their
writings are excerpted here, juxtaposed with images depicting
domestic bliss and wealth. This dissonance between the words of the
social critics who emphasized our problems and discontents and the
photographic images of how we wanted to see ourselves make the
subsequent upheavals of the 1960s understandable."
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