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World War II and the American dream

Title
World War II and the American dream / exhibition organized and catalog edited by Donald Albrecht ; essays by Margaret Crawford [and others].
Publication
Washington, D.C. : National Building Museum ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Albrecht, Donald.
  • Crawford, Margaret.
  • National Building Museum (U.S.)
Description
xli, 288 pages : illustrations; 27 cm
Summary
Among the legacies of World War II was a massive building program on a scale that America had not seen before and has not seen since. The war effort created thousands of factories, homes, even entire cities throughout the country. Many of these structures still stand, the physical evidence of an unprecedented ability to harness the power and resources of a people. The complex legacy of this notable period in our nation's history is discussed from a different perspective by each contributor.
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Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Building Museum, Nov. 11, 1994-Dec. 31, 1995.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-279) and index.
Contents
Foreword / Daniel K. Inouye -- Preface / Susan Henshaw Jones -- Introduction / Donald Albrecht -- Enlisting Modernism / Peter S. Reed -- Scarcity and Promise: Materials and American Domestic Culture during World War II / Robert Friedel -- Daily Life on the Home Front: Women, Blacks, and the Struggle for Public Housing / Margaret Crawford -- The Airplane and the Garden City: Regional Transformations during World War II / Greg Hise -- Building for War, Preparing for Peace: World War II and the Military-Industrial Complex / Joel Davidson -- War Is Swell / Michael Sorkin.
ISBN
  • 026201145X (alk. paper)
  • 0262510839 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
94038871
OCLC
  • 31328916
  • ocm31328916
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries