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Article: Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in Postwar Consumer Culture.(Review)
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- The American Enterprise
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- June 1, 2001
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Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in Postwar Consumer Culture
By Andrew Hurley
Basic Books, 405 pages, $27.50
When artists, journalists, and academics first began writing about the American roadside a few decades ago, their books were joyful affairs, driven by a buoyant sense of discovery. Even a footnote-heavy university press production like Warren Belasco's Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945 conveyed its author's happiness at the ordinary consumption habits of Americans.
Diners were a particular delight. Dip into John Baeder's evocative Diners or Richard J. S. Gutman and ...