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

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

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

4. Feminism Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique

5. Diner’s Club Card, McDonald’s, Disneyland

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

7. Sports Move West

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

9. 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

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

11. 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

12. 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)

13. 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

14. 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

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

16. 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

17. 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

18. From 50s to 60s

19. 1960s Counter Culture

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

21. Homosexuality in the US Mattachine Society Stonewall Inn Riots - 1969

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