Cover image for Promised land : how the rise of the middle class transformed America, 1929-1968 / David Stebenne.
Title:
Promised land : how the rise of the middle class transformed America, 1929-1968 / David Stebenne.
ISBN:
9781982102708

9781982102715
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Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of SImon & Schuster, Inc., 2020.

©2020
Physical Description:
xix, 311 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction -- A dream deferred -- Roosevelt to the rescue -- Hour of discontent -- The good war -- Postwar fog -- The middle-class model -- Cracks in the foundation -- Trying to cope -- Things fall apart -- The era in retrospect.
Summary:
"A timely work of groundbreaking history explains how the American middle class ballooned at mid-century until it dominated the nation, showing who benefited and what brought the expansion to an end"-- Provided by publisher.
OCLC Number:
on1138701387
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