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| HENRY LUCE'S The American Century |
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| effort to mobilize the american people for the coming war and for an era of post war leadership |
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| WENDELL WILKIE'S One World |
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| to fight world freedom we must have freedom at home |
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| FRIEDRICH A HAYEK'S The Road to Serfdom |
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| bestseller that claimed that even best intentioned government efforts to direct the economy posed a threat to individual liberty |
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| DAVID RISEMAN'S The Lonely Crowd |
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describes "other-directed" conformists who lacked inner resources to lead truly independent lives
(decades most influential work of social analysis) |
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| protest against materialism and conformism the became nationally known because San Fransisco police banned book & arrested sellers |
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| WILL HERBERG'S Protestant Catholic Jew |
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| religion now has less to do with spiritual activities or sacred values and more to do with personal identity and group assimilation |
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| JACK KEROUC'S On the Road |
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| became a bible for generation of young people who rejected middle class culture |
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| JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH'S The Affluent Society |
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| economist that challenged and criticized monotony of modern work, emptiness of suburban life and pervasive influence of advertising |
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| MILTON FRIENDMAN'S Capitalism and Freedom |
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| identified free market as the necessary foundation for individual liberty |
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