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

Publication Info.

New York : Scribner, 2020.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department	305.55 STEBENNE	Check Shelf
Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction	305.5509 STEBENNE	Check Shelf
Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction	305.5509 STEBENNE	Check Shelf
Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction	305.5509 STEBENNE	Check Shelf

Edition	First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description	xix, 311 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Subject	Middle class -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
	United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
	Middle class. (OCoLC)fst01020437
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Online version: Stebenne, David. Promised land. New York : Scribner, [2020] 9781982102722 (DLC) 2020004828
ISBN	9781982102708 (hardcover)
	1982102705 (hardcover)
	9781982102715 (paperback)
	1982102713 (paperback)
	9781982102722 (ebook)

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