Chapter 29: Affluence and Anxiety

Chapter 29: Affluence and Anxiety focuses on:

• Economic prosperity after World War II
• Civil rights struggles

Section Headings

1. Introduction: Levittown: The Flight to the Suburbs (839)
2. The Postwar Boom (840)
   1. Postwar Prosperity (840)
   2. Life in the Suburbs (841)
3. The Good Life? (842)
   1. Areas of Greatest Growth (842)
   2. Critics of the Consumer Society (843)
4. Farewell to Reform (848)
   1. Truman and the Fair Deal (848)
   2. Eisenhower's Modern Republicanism (849)
5. The Struggle over Civil Rights (851)
   1. Civil Rights as a Political Issue (851)
   2. Desegregating the Schools (852)
   3. The Beginnings of Black Activism (853)
6. Conclusion: Restoring National Confidence (856)