The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979

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257 Notes Abbreviations AC-UM Angus Campbell Papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor AER American Economic Review AH Agricultural History AHR American Historical Review AJS American Journal of Sociology ANB American National Biography Annals Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science APSR American Political Science Review AQ American Quarterly AS American Studies ASR American Sociological Review BB-WHS Bruce Barton Papers, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison BF-SLRI Betty Friedan Papers, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University BHG Better Homes and Gardens CF Canadian Forum CH Chicago History CL-UR Christopher Lasch Papers, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Rochester Library, University of Rochester CPL Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, Atlanta 258 Notes CVW-YU C. Vann Woodward Papers, Yale University Archives, Sterling Memorial Library CWH Civil War History DAB Dictionary of American Biography DBP Daniel Bell Papers, Daniel Bell’s residence, Cambridge, Mass. DDV Der Deutsche Volkswirt DP-SU David M. Potter Papers, Department of Special Collections, Stanford University DSC-UC Department of Special Collections, Regenstein Library, University of Chicago EDP Ernest Dichter Papers, originally seen in Dichter residence in Peekskill, N.Y., now located at Die Fachbibliothek am Institut für Publizistik-und Kommunikationswissenschaft , University of Vienna FO-UM Financial Operations Papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan FRB Federal Reserve Bulletin GHQ Georgia Historical Quarterly GK-UM George Katona Papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan GS-B Gustav Stolper Papers, Bundesarchiv, Berlin HBR Harvard Business Review HHW-PU H. H. Wilson Papers, Public Policy Papers, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library HPE History of Political Economy IHN Intellectual History Newsletter JAH Journal of American History JFH Journal of Family History JPE Journal of Political Economy JScH Journal of Social History JSH Journal of Southern History JVM-HP James V. McConnell Papers, History of Psychology Archives, University of Akron LAT Los Angeles Times LHJ Ladies’ Home Journal MH Maryland Historian MVHR Mississippi Valley Historical Review NEQ New England Quarterly NR New Republic NW Newsweek NY New Yorker NYRB New York Review of Books Note to page 2 259 NYT New York Times NYTBR New York Times Book Review NYTM New York Times Magazine OHC-CU Oral History Collection, Oral History Research Office, Butler Library, Columbia University PM People Magazine POQ Public Opinion Quarterly PPPS Vance Packard Papers, Rare Books and Special Collections, Pennsylvania State University Libraries, University Park PSQ Presidential Studies Quarterly PSR Political Science Review RAH Reviews in American History RC-YU Rachel Carson Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University RES Review of Economics and Statistics RHR Radical History Review RL-UM Rensis Likert Papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan SCAN Smith College Associated News SEP Saturday Evening Post SG Survey Graphic SI Sports Illustrated SR Saturday Review SRL Saturday Review of Literature, which changed its name to Saturday Review with the January 19, 1952, issue UA-PU University Archives, Mudd Library, Princeton University USNWR U.S. News and World Report VPR-UM Vice President for Research, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan WBMC-JCL White Burkett Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, Jimmy Carter Library, Atlanta WSJ Wall Street Journal YR Yale Review Introduction 1. For recent works on the history of consumer culture, see Kathleen G. Donohue, Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), and Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (New York: Knopf, 2003). For previously published portions of these projects, see Kathleen G. Donohue, “What Gender Is the Consumer? The Role of Gender Connotations in Defining the Political,” Journal of American Studies 33 (Apr. 1999): 19–44; and “From Cooperative Commonwealth to Cooperative Democracy: The American 260 Notes to pages 3–11 Cooperative Ideal, 1880–1940,” in Consumers against Capitalism? Consumer Cooperation in Europe, North America, and Japan, 1840–1990, ed. Ellen Furlough and Carl Strikwerda (London : Rowman and Littlefield, 1999), 115–34; and Lizabeth Cohen, “A Middle-Class Utopia? The Suburban Home in the 1950s,” in Making Choices: A New Perspective on the History of Domestic Life in Illinois, ed. Janice Tauer Wass (Springfield: Illinois State Museum, 1995), 59– 67; “A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Consumption in Postwar America: An Interview with Lizabeth Cohen,” conducted by Lisa Kannenberg and Lisa Phillips, Journal...