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Do You Remember? I
grew up in the 50's. We look back at that time with nostalgia as a
kind of golden age of American life. Television, suburbs, mass
consumerism, interstate highways, and Elvis were all new, and they
were creating sweeping changes. But beneath the mostly-comfortable
conformity and affluence, there were undercurrents--the Cold War,
racial tensions, roots of the Vietnam war, and McCarthyism. I was
planning to study engineering, not history. Why? Sputnik. Sputnik
challenged our sense of who we are--our frontier spirit. It's an
interesting story. I hope you'll listen. |
Dr. Dr. Pitz
in his office at The Professor's House
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