Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 1931
- 2 Life, Death, and Learning in the Cities
- 3 Toward a New Economy, 1890 to 1930
- 4 State Crafting – American Style
- 5 Confronting the World
- 6 Winners and Losers, 1890 to 1930
- 7 New Deal Experiments
- 8 Fighting On God’s Side
- 9 The New Aristocracy, 1946 to 1969
- 10 The Suburban Conquest of the 1960s
- 11 Empire in the American Century
- 12 The Tattered Empire of the 1970s
- 13 The Cracked Core
- 14 The American Solution, 1981 to 2001
- 15 Conservatism: Rhetoric and Realities, 1981 to 2001
- 16 The Hegemony Trap
- 17 The American Dream, 1981 to 2001
- 18 The Creative Society in Danger
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- References
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 1931
- 2 Life, Death, and Learning in the Cities
- 3 Toward a New Economy, 1890 to 1930
- 4 State Crafting – American Style
- 5 Confronting the World
- 6 Winners and Losers, 1890 to 1930
- 7 New Deal Experiments
- 8 Fighting On God’s Side
- 9 The New Aristocracy, 1946 to 1969
- 10 The Suburban Conquest of the 1960s
- 11 Empire in the American Century
- 12 The Tattered Empire of the 1970s
- 13 The Cracked Core
- 14 The American Solution, 1981 to 2001
- 15 Conservatism: Rhetoric and Realities, 1981 to 2001
- 16 The Hegemony Trap
- 17 The American Dream, 1981 to 2001
- 18 The Creative Society in Danger
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- References
Summary
If you are reading this book, you are probably a professional or a wannabe professional in training. Training and practice in the professions require literacy and, to some extent, the curiosity that might encourage you to buy or borrow a book of essays on “The Creative Society.” Odds are you live and work in a city or suburb. If you have a job right now, you probably get paid by a relatively large organization and most of your income – like mine – comes to you in the form of regular paychecks. If even a few of these guesses are accurate, you should keep reading because you’re the central subject of this history.
How could that be true? History, we were told in school, has always been shaped by presidents and prime ministers, by generals and dictators, by the people who make it into the headlines of newspapers, the TV news, and the blogs. If you don't believe that, just borrow your daughter or son's history text and skim through the index. You’ll recognize many of the names even though it may take you a while to remember exactly what they did or when they did it.
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- The Creative Society – and the Price Americans Paid for It , pp. ix - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011