Great leap: the past twenty five years in America (Record no. 2195)

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Classification number 305.5 BRO
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Personal name Brooks, John
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Title Great leap: the past twenty five years in America
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Harper and Row
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1966
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Extent 382p.
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Summary, etc. The multiple revolutions in American life<br/>between 1939 and 1965 are the theme of<br/>this narrative of our times: changes so<br/>rapid and far-reaching as to be unprece-<br/>dented not only in our experience but in<br/>that of any nation not suddenly trans-<br/>formed by war or plague.<br/>1939 was a watershed year. It was the<br/>year college boys took to eating goldfish.<br/>Only one American in thirty-three paid any<br/>income tax. Communists dominated certain<br/>large and powerful labor organizations.<br/>War broke out in Europe and the atomic<br/>bomb project was conceived.<br/>Since then America has become richer,<br/>more powerful, older, and perhaps wiser.<br/>Big business, that arch villain of the New<br/>Deal, has experienced the corporation ex-<br/>plosion and with it a transformation in<br/>character. The supergiants of today are<br/>benign, smiling and approval-seeking and<br/>Keynes has replaced Adam Smith as our<br/>national economic philosopher.<br/>General prosperity and the income tax<br/>have brought about a great leveling. Pov-<br/>erty is still with us, but it is not epidemic.<br/>The transformation in communications,<br/>particularly the phenomenal rise of tele-<br/>vision, has caused a filtering down of ideas<br/>and attitudes formerly confined to the small<br/>educated middle and upper class. This has<br/>resulted not only in the "cultural explo-<br/>sion” (and the general acceptance of psy-<br/>choanalysis), but in a national awareness<br/>of our involvement in international politics;<br/>and along with the revolutions in science<br/>and education, it has spurred that uniquely<br/>American issue, the civil-rights movement.<br/>Are all aspects of the vast change im-<br/>provements? Well, no. In the process of<br/>becoming urbanized, Americans have de-<br/>spoiled their cities and their countryside.<br/>Religion has become amiably homogenized.<br/>There has been a clear-cut deterioration in<br/>the relations between races. And the Amer-<br/>ican image has suffered abroad. They liked<br/>a<br/>us better when we seemed naïve, some-<br/>times silly-and were less powerful.<br/>To the reader's continual fascination-<br/>and amazement-Mr. Brooks presents not<br/>only the startling contrasts between then<br/>and now but a lucid analysis of how and<br/>why this transformation occurred. The<br/>Great Leap is a brilliant combination of<br/>summary and synthesis, social history at its<br/>liveliest and most illuminating.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Sociology
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