HON 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Athan Theoharis, Consumerism, Plausible Deniability
26 Sep 2016
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Rising wages: by 1956 the real income of an average american was more than 50 percent greater than it had been in 1929 . (dubofsky and theoharis): this gives american families more spending money for leisure items. Dream: businesses moved where the people are and the suburbs grew rapidly. Technology rapidly improved: television is the symbol of wealth in america at the time. Politians benefited from the invention of the television because they can use it for propaganda. 1960s in the presidential debates kennedy vs nixon: people listening on the radio thought nixon was the winner of the debates, but those who watched it on television believed. Families bonded over watching television together: medical advances = longer life span. Interstate highway system was built by eisenhower: people could move around the country faster and easier, was actually built for military purposes.
