Lizabeth Cohen
The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
After WWII, Americans were told that mass consumption would make the country prosperous: "provide jobs, purchasing power, and investment dollars". Lizabeth Cohen traces the history of the "Consumers’ Republic", A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America.
Lizabeth Cohen will be speaking at the New York Historical Society February 26th at 6:30pm
Music: Raymond Scott and the Chesterfield Arrangements 1937-38
Lizabeth Cohen will be speaking at the New York Historical Society February 26th at 6:30pm
Music: Raymond Scott and the Chesterfield Arrangements 1937-38
