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A Consumers' Republic The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America Author: In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life. — Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became sy... more »
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