Chapter Thirty: The Affluent Society

1. Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation, 4/e Chapter Thirty: The Affluent Society

2. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Economic “Miracle” • Booming Economic Growth The American Birth Rate 1940-1960

3. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Economic “Miracle” • Economic Growth • Government Spending

4. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Economic “Miracle” • Economic Growth • Government Spending • Suburban Expansion

5. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Economic “Miracle” • The Rise of the Modern West • Government-Induced Growth Oil Rig

6. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Economic “Miracle” • Capital and Labor • AFL-CIO Workers Represented by Unions, 1920-1990

7. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Economic “Miracle” • Capital and Labor • AFL-CIO • Jimmy Hoffa “I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.” - Jimmy Hoffa

8. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Explosion of Science and Technology • Medical Breakthroughs • Development of Antibacterial Drugs

9. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Explosion of Science and Technology • Medical Breakthroughs • Development of Antibacterial Drugs • Penicillin

10. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Explosion of Science and Technology • Medical Breakthroughs • Development of Antibacterial Drugs • Penicillin • Salk Vaccine

11. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Explosion of Science and Technology • Pesticides • DDT

12. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Explosion of Science and Technology • Postwar Electronic Research • Television

13. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Explosion of Science and Technology • Postwar Electronic Research • Television • Integrated Circuits Invented

14. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Explosion of Science and Technology • Postwar Computer Technology • UNIVAC

15. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Explosion of Science and Technology • Postwar Computer Technology • UNIVAC • IBM

16. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Explosion of Science and Technology • Bombs, Rockets, and Missiles • Nuclear Fusion

17. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Explosion of Science and Technology • Bombs, Rockets, and Missiles • Nuclear Fusion • ICBMs

18. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Explosion of Science and Technology • The Space Program • Sputnik Launching a Satellite, 1961

19. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Explosion of Science and Technology • The Space Program • Sputnik • Apollo Buzz Aldrin, August 1969

20. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • People of Plenty • The Consumer Culture • Growing Focus on Consumer Goods Electric Institute of Washington. Dishwasher (Library of Congress)

21. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • People of Plenty • The Suburban Nation • William Levitt Houses on Laconia Street in a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio (Library of Congress)

22. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • People of Plenty • The Suburban Nation • William Levitt • Segregated Suburbs Chicago’s Annexation and the Suburban Noose

23. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • People of Plenty • The Suburban Family • Traditional Gender Roles Reinforced

24. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • People of Plenty • The Birth of Television • Growing Popularity of TV Teaching television studio, Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania (Library of Congress)

25. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • People of Plenty • The Birth of Television • Growing Popularity of TV • Social Conflict Accentuated

26. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • People of Plenty • Travel, Outdoor Recreation, and Environmentalism • Echo Park

27. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • People of Plenty • Travel, Outdoor Recreation, and Environmentalism • Echo Park • Sierra Club Reborn

28. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • People of Plenty • Organized Society and Its Detractors • The Organization Man “They are the ones of our middle class who have left home, spiritually as well as physically, to take the vows of organization life, and it is they who are the mind and soul of our great self-perpetuating institutions.” - William Whyte

29. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • People of Plenty • The Beats and the Restless Culture of Youth • Howl “Robot Apartments! Invincible suburbs! Skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries!” Allen Ginsberg

30. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • People of Plenty • The Beats and the Restless Culture of Youth • Howl • “Juvenile Delinquency”

31. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • People of Plenty • Rock n’ Roll • Elvis Presley

32. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • People of Plenty • Rock n’ Roll • Elvis Presley • Rock n’ Roll’s Black Origins

33. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • People of Plenty • Rock n’ Roll • Elvis Presley • Rock n’ Roll’s Black Origins • Rapidly Growing Record Scandals

34. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Other America • On the Margins of the Affluent Society • Michael Harrington “The entire invisible land of the other Americans became a ghetto, a modern poor farm for the rejects of society and the economy.” Michael Harrington

35. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Other America • On the Margins of the Affluent Society • Michael Harrington • Persistent Poverty

36. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Other America • Rural Poverty

37. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Other America • The Inner Cities • “Ghettoes” African-American Migration 1950-1980

38. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Other America • The Inner Cities • “Ghettoes” • Declining Opportunities for Unskilled Workers

39. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement • The Brown Decision and “Massive Resistance” • Brown v. Board of Education “We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place.” George E.C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James Nabrit congratulating each other after the Brown decision, 1954 (Library of Congress)

40. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement • The Brown Decision and “Massive Resistance” • Brown v. Board of Education • Little Rock’s Central High School

41. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement • The Expanding Movement • Rosa Parks “All I was doing was trying to get home from work.” - Rosa Parks 5,000 at Meeting Outline Boycott; Bullet Clips Bus." Montgomery, Alabama, Bus Boycott. Montgomery Advertiser, December 6, 1955. (Library of Congress)

42. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement • The Expanding Movement • Rosa Parks • Martin Luther King, Jr. “We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

43. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement • Causes of the Civil Rights Movement • Growing Urban Black Middle Class

44. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement • Causes of the Civil Rights Movement • Growing Urban Black Middle Class • Political Mobilization of Northern Blacks

45. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • Eisenhower Republicanism • “What Was Good for . . . General Motors” • Keynesian Welfare State Accepted Dwight D. Eisenhower (Library of Congress)

46. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • Eisenhower Republicanism • “What Was Good for . . . General Motors” • Keynesian Welfare State Accepted • Eisenhower’s Fiscal Conservatism Dwight D. Eisenhower (Library of Congress)

47. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • Eisenhower Republicanism • The Survival of the Welfare State • Federal Highway Act of 1956

48. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • Eisenhower Republicanism • The Decline of McCarthyism • Army-McCarthy Hearings “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” -Joseph Welch

49. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War • Dulles and “Massive Retaliation” • “Brinkmanship” “We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.” - John Foster Dulles

50. Chapter Thirty:The Affluent Society • Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War • France, America, and Vietnam • Ho Chi Minh