Playboys in Paradise: Masculinity, Youth and Leisure-style in Modern America

by Bill Osgerby (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $41.10

  Charts middle-class America's move towards an ethos of conspicuous consumption and sexual license during the fifties and sixties. This book looks at the interconnected changes that took place for American youth culture and masculinity as consumption and leisure established themselves as the dominant features of middle-class life.