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A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (Reprint Edition) by Lizabeth Cohen Paperback, 576 Pages, Published 2003 ISBN-10: 0-375-70737-9 / 0375707379 ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70737-7 / 9780375707377 In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life.Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly |