The Permissive Society: America, 1941–1965.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Author Information:
- Dr. Alan Cecil Petigny, 1965-2013, History@UF ~ The Official Blog of the UF History Department, Wordpress.
- Alan Cecil Petigny Obituary, Dignity Memorial, Gonzalez Funeral Home, Tampa, Florida.
- Alan Petigny, "Norman Mailer, 'The White Negro,' and New Conceptions of Self in Post-War America," The Mailer Review, Vol. 1 No. 1, Fall 2007.
Petigny writes:
"Upon closer inspection, it would seem our distorted image of the 1950s has been caused by a failure to distinguish between social conventions and private behavior — or, to state the matter a little differently, by a failure to differentiate between what people professed publicly to believe, and what they actually practiced privately.
If one focuses not on social conventions but, instead, on private behavior, what one sees during the early cold war years is a picture of dramatic change — a time when a religiously oriented vision was fast losing its hold over the American Mind and the American Soul. How else are we to explain the emergence of the Sexual Revolution during the forties and fifties — a development attested to by soaring rates of single-motherhood and premarital pregnancies occurring during the supposedly staid Eisenhower years?"
This article summarizes several topics discussed in The Permissive Society: America, 1941–1965.
Video: Alan Petigny
- Alan Petigny, "Postwar Pluralism, Modern Psychology, and the Rise of Civil Rights," James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University, 28 February 2011.
- James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University.
- Alan Petigny, "Black Militancy and White Violence: The Collapse of Authority During the Late '60s and Early '70s," Annual Black History Month Event, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University, 28 February 2013.
- James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University.
- Carson Holloway, Wilfred M. McClay, Charles Murray, Alan Petigny, James Piereson, "Impact of the 1960s Cultural Revolution," James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 21 May 2013.
- Alan Petigny's talk begins at time 42:00.
- James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University.
- Association for the Study of Free Institutions.
- Carson Holloway, Political Science, University of Nebraska, Omaha.
- Wilfred M. McClay, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
- Wilfred M. McClay, Wikipedia.
- Charles Murray, American Enterprise Institute.
- Charles Murray (b. 1943), Wikipedia.
- James Piereson, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
- James Piereson, Wikipedia.
Book Reviews:
- Jesse Walker, "Beyond Pleasantville: Permissiveness wasn’t born in the ’60s," Reason, January 2010.
- Allan C. Carlson, "The Myth of the Fifties," Modern Age, Volume 53, Number 1-2, Winter-Spring 2011.
- W. Andrew Achenbaum, Book Review," Journal of Social History, Volume 44, Number 3, Pages 958-960, Spring 2011.
- Gary Donaldson, "Book Review," American Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 2, Pages 479–480, April 2011.
- Joanne Meyerowitz, "The Liberal 1950s? Reinterpreting Postwar American Sexual Culture," in Karen Hagemann and Sonya Michel, editors, Gender and the Long Postwar: Reconsiderations of the United States and the Two Germanys, 1945-1989, Johns Hopkins University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2014, Pages 297-319.
(This is not a book review but an essay that mentions Petigny's work.)
Wikipedia Articles:
- 1940s.
- 1950s.
- History of the United States (1918–1945).
- History of the United States (1945–1964).
- Post–World War II economic expansion.
- Presidency of Harry S. Truman, April 1945 – January 1953.
- Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 1953 – January 1961.
- United States in the 1950s.