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“Historians, to be sure, have subsequently dug about in the byways of American culture and exposed signs of rebellion and dissatisfation with the conservative values of the early Eisenhower years. Some young people, mostly in university circles, identified with Holden Caulfield, the restless…” quote by James T. Patterson — Download Open image

““Historians, to be sure, have subsequently dug about in the byways of American culture and exposed signs of rebellion and dissatisfation with the conservative values of the early Eisenhower years. Some young people, mostly in university circles, identified with Holden Caulfield, the restless anti-hero of J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951). Mad magazine, a zany and highly irreverent publication, began its commercially very successful career (it was number two in circulation behind Life by the early 1960s) in 1952.53””

James T. Patterson

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