Notes on
The Affluent Society

John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1958), 129.[]

See, for example, Claudia Goldin and Robert A. Margo, “The Great Compression: The Wage Structure in the United States at Mid-Century,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 107 (February 1992): 1–34.[]

Price Fishback, Jonathan Rose, and Kenneth Snowden, Well Worth Saving: How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013).[]

Leo Schnore, “The Growth of Metropolitan Suburbs,” American Sociological Review 22 (April 1957): 169.[]

Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (New York: Random House, 2002), 202.[]

Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era(New York: Basic Books, 1999), 152.[]

Betty G. Fishman and Leo Fishman,The American Economy (Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1962), 560.[]

John P. Diggins, The Proud Decades: America in War and in Peace, 1941–1960 (New York: Norton, 1989), 219.[]

David Kushner, Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America’s Legendary Suburb(New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009), 17.[]

Thomas Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005).[]

Becky M. Nicolaides, My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920–1965(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), 193.[]

Adam W. Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 7.[]

See also J. R. McNeill and Peter Engelke, The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016); Andrew Needham, Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014); and Ted Steinberg, Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).[]

Oliver Brown, et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, et al. , 347 U.S. 483 (1954).[]

Carlos Kevin Blanton, George I. Sanchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014), 164.[]

James T. Patterson and William W. Freehling, Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy(New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 25; Pete Daniel, Standing at the Crossroads: Southern Life in the Twentieth Century(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 161–164.[]

Patterson and Freehling, Brown v. Board of Education, xxv.[]

Charles T. Clotfelter, After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011), 6.[]

William Bradford Huie, “The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi,” Look, January 24, 1956, 46–50.[]

Mario T. García, Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, 1930–1960 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989); Carlos Kevin Blanton, George I. Sánchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014).[]

Ignacio M. Garcia, White But Not Equal: Mexican Americans, Jury Discrimination, and the Supreme Court (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009), 174.[]

Lewis L. Gould, Watching Television Come of Age: The New York Times Reviews by Jack Gould (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002), 186.[]

Gary Edgerton, Columbia History of American Television (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), 90.[]

Ibid., 178.[]

Christopher H. Sterling and John Michael Kittross,Stay Tuned: A History of American Broadcasting (New York: Routledge, 2001), 364.[]

Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (New York: Basic Books, 1988).[]

Bruce Springsteen, “SXSW Keynote Address,” Rolling Stone, March 28, 2012, http://​www​.rollingstone​.com/​music/​news/​exclusive​-the​-complete​-text​-of​-bruce​-springsteens​-sxsw​-keynote​-address​-20120328.[]

John D’Emilio, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), 102–103.[]

Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011).[]

See Richard Tedlow, “The National Association of Manufacturers and Public Relations During the New Deal,” Business History Review 50 (Spring 1976): 25–45; and Wendy Wall, Inventing the “American Way”: The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).[]

Gregory Eow, “Fighting a New Deal: Intellectual Origins of the Reagan Revolution, 1932–1952,” PhD diss., Rice University, 2007; Brian Doherty, Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement(New York: Public Affairs, 2007); Kim Phillips-Fein,Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal (New York: Norton, 2009), 43–55.[]

Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets Since the Depression (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012); Jennifer Burns, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).[]

Allan J. Lichtman, White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement(New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008), 180, 201, 185.[]

Steven Wagner, Eisenhower Republicanism Pursuing the Middle Way (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006), 15.[]