Sunday, April 4, 2010

The Suburbs

Hey all,  I'm writing a paper about economics in the twentieth century.  I will not even pretend that some of the books I have to use were interesting.  They were not.  However, I just read one about how consumerism shaped the 1950s and 60s. It was super-interesting, and I didn't have to read about boring governmental agency after boring governmental agency.  Instead, I read about things like the GI Bill's impact on creating suburbs and the ability to control who lived near you on a whole new level.  Gender, race, class, malls, riots, TV, mass culture, advertising....  Yea! 
Now back to the paper.

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