TY - BOOK AU - Henthorn,Cynthia Lee ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - From submarines to suburbs: selling a better America, 1939-1959 AV - HF5415.1 .H463 2006eb U1 - 381.0973/09044 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Athens, Ohio PB - Ohio University Press KW - Marketing KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Advertising KW - Consumer behavior KW - Social conditions KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-356) and index; Introduction : legacy of the postwar commercial fallout -- Weapons of mass disorder : impediments to mobilization -- Weapons of mass persuasion : mobilization through symbol management -- Positioning machine age heroes and wartime types -- Glimpses into a "better America" -- Home front war : the campaign to save the American way -- Hygienic solutions for the "house of tomorrow" -- Postwar progress : myth or reality? -- Wartime skeptics and the "world of tomorrow" -- What did happen to the dreamworld? realities of the postwar commercial fallout -- The cold war's commercial fallout -- Afterword : the "better America" today; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10156432 ER -