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Article: Dinners, Bowling Alleys and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in the Postwar Consumer Culture.(Review)
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- The American Prospect
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- April 23, 2001
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Diners, Bowling Alleys and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in the Postwar Consumer Culture, by Andrew Hurley. Basic Books, 409 pages, $27.50.
The lunch counter in my college town is called the Yankee Doodle, and its best moments come just after the 6:00 A.M. opening. Late-night partiers straggle in before bed, thesis writers on an all-night jag fuel up, and the blue-collar workers who clean the dormitories start their day with fried eggs, fried hamburgers, fried donuts, or home fries. For a few sunrise moments, class divisions drown in a sea of butter.
Andrew Hurley's Diners, Bowling Alleys and Trailer Parks helps excavate this common ground. ...
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