The Fabulous Fifties & the Swinging Sixties Culture, Technology, and Literature in the 1950s & 1960s.

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The Fabulous Fifties & the Swinging Sixties Culture, Technology, and Literature in the 1950s & 1960s

Home Construction “Suburbia” Aerospace Industries Boeing – 707 “Air Force One” Changes in Labor – White Collar – Blue Collar – Effects on Unions

Women & Workforce “Cult of Domesticity” Television – “Ozzie and Harriet” – “Leave It to Beaver” “Pink Collar”

Feminism Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique

Diner’s Club Card, McDonald’s, Disneyland

Expansion of Television – Networks – Advertising – Religion “Televangelists” Billy Graham Oral Roberts Fulton J. Sheen – Sports

Sports Move West

Music – Rock ‘n’ Roll – Elvis Presley “Movie Stars” – Marilyn Monroe Playboy Magazine Consumerism & Sexualization

David Riesman – The Lonely Crowd William H. Whyte, Jr. – The Organization Man Sloan Wilson – The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit John Kenneth Galbraith – The Affluent Society Daniel Bell – The Coming of Post- Industrial Society – The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism C. Wright Mills – The Power Elite

Literature Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea John Steinbeck - East of Eden (1952) Travels with Charley (1962)

Realistic Writing – Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead – James Jones From Here to Eternity “Fantastic” Prose – Joseph Heller Catch-22 – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr Slaughterhouse Five

John Updike – Rabbit, Run – Couples John Cheever – The Wapshot Chronicle – The Wapshot Scandal Louis Auchincloss – upper-class New Yorkers Gore Vidal – historical novels – Myra Breckinridge WASP (White Angle-Saxon Protestant)

Poetry Ezra Pound Wallace Stevens William Carlos Williams Theodore Roethke Robert Lowell – For the Union Dead Sylvia Plath – Ariel – The Bell Jar Anne Sexton John Berryman

Playwrights Tennessee Williams – A Streetcar Named Desire – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Arthur Miller – Death of a Salesman – The Crucible Edward Albee – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Lorraine Hansberry – A Raisin in the Sun

African American Authors Richard Wright – Native Son Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man James Baldwin – The Fire Next Time LeRoi Jones / Imamu Amiri Baraka – Dutchman

Southern Literature William Faulkner Walker Percy Eudora Welty Robert Penn Warren – All the King’s Men Flannery O’Connor William Styron – The Confessions of Nat Turner

Jewish novelists Yiddish J. D. Salinger – Catcher in the Rye Bernard Malamud – The Assistant – The Natural Philip Roth – Goodbye, Columbus – Portnoy’s Complaint Saul Bellow – The Adventures of Augie March – Herzog Isaac Bashevis Singer E. L. Doctorow – The Book of Daniel – Ragtime – World’s Fair – Billy Bathgate

From 50s to 60s

1960s Counter Culture

“Sexual Revolution” Dr. Alfred Kinsey Sexual Behavior in the Human Male Sexual Behavior in the Human Female

Homosexuality in the US Mattachine Society Stonewall Inn Riots

Aftermath of 1960s Counter Culture Three Ps – Population – Protest – Prosperity