This review appears in the Winter-Spring 2011 issue of Modern Age. To subscribe now, go here.   The Permissive Society: America, 1941–1965 by Alan Petigny (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009) The era usually denoted as “the Fifties” generated a remarkable set of social indicators. For the one hundred years prior to 1941, the … Continue reading The Myth of the Fifties