American Childhood in the 1950s
by
Victoria M. Grieve
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Both conservative and liberal Baby Boomers have romanticized the 1950s as an age of innocence--of pickup ball games and Howdy Doody, when mom stayed home and the economy boomed. These nostalgic narratives obscure many other histories of postwar childhood, one of which has more in common with the war...