Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit write by David Castronovo. This book was released on 2004-09-01. Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the late 1940s through the JFK years, America was the home office of literary innovation. Writers forged new styles with the rapidly changing times, and generated new ideas that fit the challenges of late modernity. Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit shows how particular landmark books took on the hot-button subjects of the 1950s: race and religious difference; social class and the suburbs; the youth culture; conformity and groupthink; and much else.
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit write by Sloan Wilson. This book was released on 2009-03-17. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Universally acclaimed when first published in 1955, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit captured the mood of a generation. Its title — like Catch-22 and Fahrenheit 451 — has become a part of America's cultural vocabulary. Tom Rath doesn't want anything extraordinary out of life: just a decent home, enough money to support his family, and a career that won't crush his spirit. After returning from World War II, he takes a PR job at a television network. It is inane, dehumanizing work. But when a series of personal crises force him to reexamine his priorities — and take responsibility for his past — he is finally moved to carve out an identity for himself. This is Sloan Wilson's searing indictment of a society that had just begun to lose touch with its citizens. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is a classic of American literature and the basis of the award-winning film starring Gregory Peck. "A consequential novel." — Saturday Review
Original Sin and Everyday Protestants
Original Sin and Everyday Protestants - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Original Sin and Everyday Protestants write by Andrew S. Finstuen. This book was released on 2009-12-01. Original Sin and Everyday Protestants available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the years following World War II, American Protestantism experienced tremendous growth, but conventional wisdom holds that midcentury Protestants practiced an optimistic, progressive, complacent, and materialist faith. In Original Sin and Everyday Protestants, historian Andrew Finstuen argues against this prevailing view, showing that theological issues in general--and the ancient Christian doctrine of original sin in particular--became newly important to both the culture at large and to a generation of American Protestants during a postwar "age of anxiety" as the Cold War took root. Finstuen focuses on three giants of Protestant thought--Billy Graham, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Paul Tillich--men who were among the era's best known public figures. He argues that each thinker's strong commitment to the doctrine of original sin was a powerful element of the broad public influence that they enjoyed. Drawing on extensive correspondence from everyday Protestants, the book captures the voices of the people in the pews, revealing that the ordinary, rank-and-file Protestants were indeed thinking about Christian doctrine and especially about "good" and "evil" in human nature. Finstuen concludes that the theological concerns of ordinary American Christians were generally more complicated and serious than is commonly assumed, correcting the view that postwar American culture was becoming more and more secular from the late 1940s through the 1950s.
Making Sense of Suburbia through Popular Culture
Making Sense of Suburbia through Popular Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Sense of Suburbia through Popular Culture write by Rupa Huq. This book was released on 2013-06-20. Making Sense of Suburbia through Popular Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We all know what suburbia is, indeed the majority of us live in it. Yet, despite this ubituity, with no formal definition of the contept, the suburbs have developed in our collective imagination through representations in popular culture, from Terry and June to Desparate Housewives. Rupa Huq examines how suburbia has been depicted in novels, cinema, popular music and on television, charting changing trends both in the suburbs and popular media consumption and production. She looks at the differences in defining suburbia in the US and UK and how characteristics associated with it have shifted in meaning and form.
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit II
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit II write by Sloan Wilson. This book was released on 1984. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is a novel about the American search for purpose in a world dominated by business. Tom and Betsy Rath share a struggle to find contentment in their hectic and material culture while several other characters fight essentially the same battle, but struggle in it for different reasons. In the end, it is a story of taking responsibility for one's own life. The book was largely autobiographical, drawing on Wilson's experiences as assistant director of the US National Citizen Commission for Public Schools.
