This Week's Suggested Book
from the Ashbrook Center
(Sunday, September 06, 2009)
 | | The Permissive Society:
America, 1941-1965
by Alan Petigny |
Cambridge University Press
312 pages, August 2009
Hardcover, 24.99
ISBN: 0521757223
A percentage of the proceeds from your purchase of this book from Amazon.com will benefit the
Ashbrook Center.
In contrast to those who see the 1950s as essentially a conservative period, and who view the 1960s as a time of rapid moral change, The Permissive Society points to the emergence of a liberalizing impulse during the Truman and Eisenhower years. The book shows how, during the 1950s, a traditionalist moral framework was beginning to give way to a less authoritarian approach to moral issues as demonstrated by a more relaxed style of child-rearing, the rising status of women both inside and outside the home, the increasing reluctance of Americans to regard alcoholism as a sin, loosening sexual attitudes, the increasing influence of modern psychology, and, correspondingly, the declining influence of religion in the personal lives of most Americans.
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