Of the 1950s as an era of prosperity where america was a world leader and the American People were happy in suburban homes with their nuclear families. I like ike. Its so simple and it conveys that happiness. This idea, however, is a myth, and its a political construction. The 1950s, in fact was a time wrought with racial discrimination, conflict, intense political and social pressures to conform to a suburban ideal that imposed gender hierarchies and mandated heterosexuality in the law. It was a time in which anticommunism targeted the liberal reform impulses of the new deal and frequently, anticommunist took away Civil Liberties and these are all different areas of political pressures in terms of enforcing certain ideals and resisting against those that we will look at next week, but i like ike i like ike as a political construct shifted attention away from those divisions and it created a sense of consensus. In many ways this is a political construction and at the root of it was a v
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Prizewinning ron churn discusses his biography of ron sure nownt his biography of Ulysses S Grant. U. S. Grant refused to trumpet his accomplishments in print. When did you decide to start that way in your book . Mr. Chernow when i started working on the book i read it to i ran into a friend who said to me, how can you write a great biography of someone who wrote a great autobiography . That stopped me in my tracks and i thought about that comment for many days. Then i realized that it actually helped to define the direction of my book because i realized that what my job was to do as a biographer was to zero in on the silences and the evasions. It is not really a biography. It is not really an autobiography. He covers the mexican war and the civil war. I ended up zeroing in on those things that grant did not want to talk about, particularly his lifelong struggle with alcoholism and his repeated his repeated business failures. Host i want to start out concentrating on the end of his lif