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Diners, Bowling Alleys, And Trailer Parks: Chasing The American Dream In The Postwar Consumer Culture

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Basic Books, Dec 15, 2008 - Business & Economics

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Much as Stephanie Coontz did in her influential The Way We Never Were (LJ 9/1/92), Hurley (history, Univ. of Missouri; Environmental Inequalities, Common Fields) holds up a new lens to class, race ... Read full review

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About the author (2008)

Andrew Hurley is a professor of history at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Hurley is the author of Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980 and Common Fields: An Environmental History of St. Louis.

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