Tables | ix | ||
Introduction | 1 | (19) | |
1. Chastened Consumption: World War II and the Campaign for a Democratic Standard of Living | 20 | (28) | |
2. Celebratory Emigres: Ernest Dichter and George Katona | 48 | (31) | |
3. A Southerner in Exile, the Cold War, and Social Order: David M. Potter's People of Plenty | 79 | (22) | |
4. Critique from Within: John Kenneth Galbraith, Vance Packard, and Betty Friedan | 101 | (28) | |
5. From the Affluent Society to the Poverty of Affluence, 1960-1962: Paul Goodman, Oscar Lewis, Michael Harrington, and Rachel Carson | 129 | (33) | |
6. Consumer Activism, 1965-1970: Ralph Nader, Martin Luther King Jr., and Paul R. Ehrlich | 162 | (41) | |
7. The Energy Crisis and the Quest to Contain Consumption: Daniel Bell, Christopher Lasch, and Robert Bellah | 203 | (22) | |
8. 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 |
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