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A nation of outsiders : how the white middle class fell in love with rebellion in postwar America / Grace Elizabeth Hale

Hale, Grace Elizabeth [Verfasser]

Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2011

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xi, 386 pages) : Illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-19-979238-2 ; 0-19-979238-0 ; 978-0-19-539313-2

At mid-century, Americans increasingly fell in love with characters like Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye and Marlon Brando's Johnny in The Wild One, musicians like Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan, and activists like the members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. These emotions enabled some middle-class whites to cut free of their own histories and identify with those who, while lacking economic, political, or social privilege, seemed to possess instead vital cultural resources and a depth of feeling not found in "grey flannel" America. In this wide-ranging and vivid.