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Twelve narrative chapters chronicle how American culture changed and grew near the end of the 20th century.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword Timeline of Popular Culture Preface Everyday America World of Youth Advertising Architecture Fashion Food Leisure Activities Literature Music Performing Arts Travel Visual Arts Further Reading Index

About the Author

Joel Shrock earned his PhD from Miami University and is currently an instructor of history at the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities. He has authored an article on race and rape in silent film and co-authored another on student protest of the Vietnam War, which appears in the Greenwood Press volume of essays The Vietnam War on Campus: Other Voices, More Distant Drums. He is currently completing a manuscript on popular children's literature in the Gilded Age.

Reviews

While learning about government, great leaders, and war is obviously crucial to the study of history, learning about the everyday life of the regular man and woman is just as important in gaining a holistic view of the past. Greenwood excels at looking at history this way. . . . [E]asy to read and informative. . . . [R]ecommended for high-school, undergraduatem and public libraries. Could just as well be placed in the circulating collection as in reference.
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