Title Pursuing Happiness : American Consumers in the Twentieth Century.

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Description	1 online resource (203 pages).
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Series	Princeton Legacy Library
	Princeton legacy library.
Contents	Cover; Works Cited; Index.
Summary	Whether watching baseball or undergoing heart surgery, Americans have bought a variety of goods and services to achieve happiness. Here is a provocative look at what they have chosen to purchase. Stanley Lebergott maintains that the average consumer has behaved more reasonably than many distinguished critics of ""materialism"" have suggested. He sees consumers seeking to make an uncertain and often cruel world into a pleasanter and more convenient place--and, for the most part, succeeding. With refreshing common sense, he reminds us of what many ""luxuries"" have meant, especially for women.
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Subject	Consumption (Economics) -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Consumption (Economics)
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.
	Economic conditions.
Chronological Term	1918-1945
Subject	United States -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
Chronological Term	1945-
	Since 1900
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Lebergott, Stanley. Pursuing Happiness : American Consumers in the Twentieth Century. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014
ISBN	9781400863266 (electronic book)
	1400863260 (electronic book)