Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1Shortages and Strikes, 1945–1948

2The Era of “The Treaty of Detroit,” 1949–1950

3No Longer the Arsenal of Democracy, 1951–1952

4A Post–Korean War Boom, 1953

5A “Painfully Inconvenient” Recession, 1954

6“The Fifties” in One Year, 1955

7“A Severe and Prolonged Hangover,” 1956–1957

8The Nadir, 1958

9“What IS happening? Which way ARE we headed?” 1959–1960

Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index