Fifties Discourse: Korea and America's Cold War Conformity

Parents grew out of a Great Depression into a world at war. Time afterward saw a Europe half behind an Iron Curtain of Soviet occupation and a Western Europe in need of Marshall Plan assistance. Atomic bomb, Cold War containment of Russia, and Korean War haunted America. Parents who lived America's Age of Anxiety later welcomed the Fifties' peace and prosperity. Treaty of Detroit gave car workers economic security. So did IBM and California aerospace. Middle class suburbia conformed to Levi...