Farewell to Prosperity: Wealth, Identity, and Conflict in Postwar America

by Lisle A. Rose

Farewell to Prosperity is a provocative, in-depth study of the Liberal and Conservative forces that fought each other to shape American political culture and character during the nation's most prosperous years. The tome's central theme is the bitter struggle to fashion post-World War II society between a historic Protestant Ethic that equated free-market economics and money-making with Godliness and a new, secular Liberal temperament...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826220290
• ISBN13: 9780826220295
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5