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CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: AMERICA AT MIDCENTURY, 1952–1963
The Eisenhower Presidency
"Middle of the Road", Modern Republicanism
Subsidizing Prosperity
FHA
Federal Highway Act
NDEASuburban Life
The Feminine Mystique
Levittown
Organized Labor and the AFL-CIOLonely Crowds and Organization Men
The Expansion of Higher Education
Health and Medicine
AMA, "wonder drugs"
YOUTH CULTUREThe Youth Market
“Hail! Hail! Rock ’n’ Roll!”
Almost Grown
Deviance and Delinquency
MASS CULTURE AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Television: Tube of Plenty
Television and Politics
Culture Critics
THE COLD WAR CONTINUED
The “New Look” in Foreign Affairs
Covert Action
Intervening Around the World
Ike’s Warning: The Military-Industrial Complex
JOHN F. KENNEDY AND THE NEW FRONTIER
The Election of 1960
New Frontier Liberalism
Kennedy and the Cold War
The Cuban Revolution and the Bay of Pigs
The Missile Crisis
The Assassination