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Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003). An important interpretation of the United States as a consumer society.
James Gilbert, Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s (2005). An engaging account of cultural figures from the 1950s, including Billy Graham and John Wayne.
David Halberstam, The Fifties (1993). An engaging and accessible introduction to postwar American society.
Karal Ann Marling, As Seen on TV (1996). An insightful explanation of the impact of television.
Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound (1988). The classic introduction to postwar family life.
Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (1996). The best account of the urban crisis.