Presents overviews of daily life, youth, and ten aspects of popular culture--advertising, architecture and design, fashion, food and drink, leisure, literature, music, performing arts, travel and recreation, and visual arts--in the 1950s, and includes a list of product prices from that decade and a further reading list.
Content Note
Series foreword / Ray B. Browne -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Timeline of the 1950s -- Part I. Life and youth during the 1950s -- 1. Everyday America -- 2. World of youth -- Part II. Popular culture of the 1950s -- 3. Advertising -- 4. Architecture and design -- 5. Fashion -- 6. Food and drink -- 7. Leisure activities -- 8. Literature -- 9. Music -- 10. Performing arts -- 11. Travel and recreation -- 12. Visual arts -- Cost of products in the 1950s -- Notes -- Further reading -- Index.