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Title World War II and the American dream / exhibition organized and catalog edited by Donald Albrecht ; essays by Margaret Crawford .. [and others]..

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : National Building Museum ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1995]
©1995

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  363.509 W927W    Check Shelf
Description xli, 288 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Note Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Building Museum, Nov. 11, 1994-Dec. 31, 1995.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [252]-279) and index.
Contents Enlisting modernism / Peter S. Reed -- Scarcity and promise : materials and American domestic culture during World War II / Robert Friedel -- Daily life on the home front : women, blacks, and the struggle for public housing / Margaret Crawford -- The airplane and the garden city : regional transformations during World War II / Greg Hise -- Building for war, preparing for peace : World War II and the military-industrial complex / Joel Davidson -- War is swell / Michael Sorkin.
Subject Housing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Building -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Economic aspects -- United States.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945.
Added Author Albrecht, Donald.
Crawford, Margaret, 1948-
National Building Museum (U.S.)
ISBN 026201145X alkaline paper
9780262011457 alkaline paper
0262510839 paperback alkaline paper
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