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Article: Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in Postwar Consumer Culture
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- Business History Review
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- October 1, 2002
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Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in Postwar Consumer Culture. By Andrew Hurley. New York: Basic Books, 2002.416 pp. Paper, $17.00. ISBN 0-465-03187-o.
Andrew Hurley's Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks is, fundamentally, two books for the price of one. The first, which is most likely to be of interest to readers of this journal, is a beautifully researched institutional and cultural history of diners, bowling alleys, and trailer parks and their roles in postwar American culture. The second (presented primarily in a fifty-four-page conclusion) is a provocative and often polemical reinterpretation of postwar American history and the social crises ...