Contents: v. 1: 1900s-1910s -- v. 2: 1920s-1930s -- v. 3: 1940s-1950s -- v. 4: 1960s-1970s -- v. 5: 1980s-1990s
Partial contents: v. 1: Sears, Roebuck catalog, teddy bears. Houdini, silent movies, vaudeville, Harley-Davidson, Louisville Sluggler, Model T, gum, Coca-cola, soda fountains, jazz, Joplin, dime novels, Gibson Girls, Jack London, National
Geographic, Ty Cobb, Lionel trains, Milton Bradley Company, Negro leagues, hairstyles, roller coasters, General Motors, dancing, zipper, movie palaces, Chaplin, Will Rogers, Keystone Kops, Campbell's soup, Oreo cookies, Rockwell, Tarzan,
Vogue, World Book Encyclopedia, Zorro, Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy, War bonds, Titanic, Ku Klux Klan, refrigerators
Partial contents: v. 2: Roaring Twenties, band-aid, Marlboro Man, flappers, raccoon coats, Betty Crocker, department stores, Josephine Baker, Charlie Chan, Disney, Rudolph Valentino, fast food, Gerber, Velveeta Cheese, Blues, Grand Ole
Oprey, gossip columns, Little Orphan Annie, Popeye, Buck Rogers, Charles Atlas, Harlem Globetrotters, Lincoln logs, National Fottball League, radio, baseball cards, Al Capone, Lindbergh, Prohibition, penicillin, Red Scare, Scopes Monket
Trial, ballpoint pens, nylon, B movies, Bogart, Cagney, John Wayne, Shirley Temple, forzen dinners, big bands, jukeboxes, Dick Tracy, comic books, pulp magazines, Superman, Little League, Jesse Owens, Monopoly, Bonnie and Clyde, goldfish
swallowing, skyscrapers, drive-n theaters
Partial contents: v. 3: Jeep, Tupperware, Zoot suit, Citizen Kane, Elizabeth Taylor, McDonald's, Pop music, Rythm and Blues, National Basketball League, Jackie Robinson, Televisions news, Baby Boom, Cold War, Levittown, UFOs, Barbie,
credit cards, jeans, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, 3-D movies, disc jockeys, electric guitar, B. B. King, Elvis Presley, rock and roll, beatniks, Dr. Seuss, Peanuts, Tolkein, skateboarding, American Bandstand, game shows, sitcoms, transitor
radios, amusement parks, blacklisting, diets, hula hoop, The Pill, satellites, suburbs.
Partial contents: v. 4: activism, G. I. Joe, valium, Xerox copiers, bell-bottoms, miniskirts, horror movies, Easy Rider, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Beach Boys, Beatles, Bob, Dylan, eight-track tapes, Woodstock, folk music, Cosmopolitan, Marvel
comics, Ali, Super Bowl, daytime talk shows, Star Trek, Laugh-In, Civil Rights Movement, Haight-Ashbury, Hippies, Mafia, martial arts, NASA, sexual revolution, hot pants, disaster movies, Star Wars, disco, funk, walkman, aerobics, jogging,
video games, cable TV, CB radio, Muppets, Apple computer, communes, cults, environmentalism, Equal Rights Amendment, Kent State Massacre, personal computers, serial killers, sexually transmitted diseases, streaking
Partial contents: v. 5: conservatism, IBM, preppy, supermodels, goth culture, compact disc, heavy metal, Michael Jackson, Madonna, MTV, rap and hip-hop, Trivial Pursuit, World Wrestling Federation, CNN, David Letterman, schock radio, AIDS,
Cabbage Patch Kids, gangs, Generation X, minivans, sport utility vehicles, prozac, road rage, skinheads, urban legends, Yuppies, digital age, Microsoft, alternative rock, grunge, Nirvana, Britney Spears, raves, Tejano music, extreme
sports, Anime, reality TV, Branch Davidians, cellular phones, chat rooms, ecstasy, e-mail, hackers, Internet, Y2 scare.
Summary: Recounts the enduring products, innovative trends, and fun fads of the past ten decades.
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Bowling, beatniks, and bell-bottoms : pop culture of 20th-century America
