The Anxieties of Affluence

by Horowitz, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9781558494329
• ISBN10: 1558494324
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Author Biography

Daniel Horowitz is the Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of American Studies at Smith College.

Table of Contents

Tables	ix
Introduction	1	(19)
Chastened Consumption: World War II and the Campaign for a Democratic Standard of Living	20	(28)
Celebratory Emigres: Ernest Dichter and George Katona	48	(31)
A Southerner in Exile, the Cold War, and Social Order: David M. Potter's People of Plenty	79	(22)
Critique from Within: John Kenneth Galbraith, Vance Packard, and Betty Friedan	101	(28)
From the Affluent Society to the Poverty of Affluence, 1960--1962: Paul Goodman, Oscar Lewis, Michael Harrington, and Rachel Carson	129	(33)
Consumer Activism, 1965--1970: Ralph Nader, Martin Luther King Jr., and Paul R. Ehrlich	162	(41)
The Energy Crisis and the Quest to Contain Consumption: Daniel Bell, Christopher Lasch, and Robert Bellah	203	(22)
Three Intellectuals and a President: Jimmy Carter, ``Energy and the Crisis of Confidence''	225	(20)
Epilogue: The Response to Affluence at the End of the Century	245	(12)
Notes	257	(62)
Acknowledgments	319	(4)
Index	323