Apr. 11--The Postwar Era and the Age of "Consensus"

1. World War II and the Cold War
   1. An Age of Ideological Struggle
      1. Naziism
      2. Communism
   2. A New Sense of American Unity
      1. Disillusionment With Radical Critiques of "America"--Communism as "The God That Failed"
      2. A New American Pride
         1. Victory in a "Good War"
         2. Pride in Prosperity--Celebration of "Big Business"
   3. A new Obsession with American Identity--The "Consensus School"
      1. America as Symbol and Myth--Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land
      2. Prosperity as "American"
         1. David Potter's People of Plenty
         2. John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society
         3. The American as "New Man"--R. W. B. Lewis's The American Adam
      3. The Dark Side of "Consensus"
         1. The Land of "Conformity"
            1. David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd
            2. William Whyte's The Organization Man
            3. Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray FLannel Suit
            4. The "Beat Generation"
         2. A Shrunken "Woman's Sphere"--Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique