... 1958 John Weitz released his book Sports Clothes for Your Sports Car. Weitz, a professional fashion designer and sports car lover "speaks to the liaison of the 1950s between car and costume, proposing] that the sport-car desire is inherently a "fashion urge." This merging of automobiles and fashion even witnessed the advent of new types of clothing specifically named and styled for the American auto culture this is especially clear in ... lake beds. Hot Rod took on the challenge, especially since it saw this task as an important achievement in its goal of differentiating the "true " hot...

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• Approx Pages: 29
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... to great verisimilitude) involves him directly participating in the search for - and death of - the American Dream. Despite being markedly different in style, each book has a shared theme and each author's vitriolic arrow is poised to hit the same target. Vonnegut ... and especially politically in this day and age.", This echoes Vonnegut's views about the US being a chaotic and unstructured country. Vonnegut shows us chaos in Breakfast of Champions through the stories of the main character, the absurdly-named writer ... upon the idea of war and the eras it defines. Yossarian descends a...

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... encouraged isolationism during the mid 1930s. The Book of the Month Club featured a volume entitled Merchants of Death, which asserted that arms manufacturers who had deliberately stimulated the war to market their products had drawn the ... War I. From 1934 to 1936, a congressional committee chaired by Senator Nye, investigated charges that false Allied propaganda and Wall Street bankers had dragged America into the war. In April of 1935, 50,000 veterans held a peace march through ... in Europe. This campaign, strictly translated as "living space," was Hitler's desire to conquer Europe...

• Word Count: 5901
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• Grade Level: High School