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Thomas Hine
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| Title: |
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Populuxe |
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| Published in: |
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English |
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Hardcover |
| Pages: |
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192 |
| Date: |
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1987-11-05 |
| ISBN: |
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0747500576 |
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
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First Edition |
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Product Description
"Populuxe" - populism, popularity and luxury is the word coined by the author to express the atmosphere of American society during the decade 1954-1964. The book examines the new luxury products created at this time and the lifestyle they represent, so giving a tour of this era when the United States had a booming economy and was virtually unchallenged as a world power. It discusses the new world of mass suburbia where there was always a hope of being able to move up the ladder to something better and looks at the many new things there were to buy such as electric lawn mowers, washing machines, a charcoal grill and televisions. This was the push-button age when the flick of a finger promised the end of domestic drudgery and was also described as the Jet Age when cars sprout ed tail-fins.
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