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Promised land : how the rise of the middle class transformed America, 1929-1968 / David Stebenne.

Author: Stebenne, David, author.

Edition Statement:First Scribner hardcover edition.

ImprintNew York : Scribner, [2020]

Descriptionxix, 311 pages ; 24 cm

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:"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.



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