When We Liked Ike: Looking for Postwar America
by: Barbara Norfleet

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Co., 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 160 pages. After World War II, the prevalent self-image among America's white middle class was one of affluence, moral superiority, and contentment. This image is reflected in photographs in both advertising and the media during the late 1940s and 1950s showing perfect citizens and their families at work and at play. Many of these apparently candid photographs were in fact created by professional studio photographers to portray the way most middle-class Americans wanted to present themselves.