Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-232) and index.
Contents:
The search for modern America -- Seeking mastery: the machine age and the idealized past -- Seeking equality: feminism and flood waters -- Seeking notoriety: the infamous and the famous -- Seeking respectability: modern media and traditional values -- The search for American culture.
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