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Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
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Introduction
1. Chastened Consumption: World War II and the Campaign for a Democratic Standard of Living
2. Celebratory Émigrés: Ernest Dichter and George Katona
3. A Southerner in Exile, the Cold War, and Social Order: David M. Potter’s People of Plenty
4. Critique from Within: John Kenneth Galbraith, Vance Packard, and Betty Friedan
5. From the Affluent Society to the Poverty of Affluence, 1960–1962: Paul Goodman, Oscar Lewis, Michael Harrington, and Rachel Carson
6. Consumer Activism, 1965–1970: Ralph Nader, Martin Luther King Jr., and Paul R. Ehrlich
7. The Energy Crisis and the Quest to Contain Consumption: Daniel Bell, Christopher Lasch, and Robert Bellah
8. Three Intellectuals and a President: Jimmy Carter, “Energy and the Crisis of Confidence”
Epilogue: The Response to Affluence at the End of the Century
Notes
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