TY - GEN N2 - At mid-century, Americans increasingly fell in love with characters like Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye and Marlon Brando's Johnny in The Wild One, musicians like Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan, and activists like the members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. These emotions enabled some middle-class whites to cut free of their own histories and identify with those who, while lacking economic, political, or social privilege, seemed to possess instead vital cultural resources and a depth of feeling not found in "grey flannel" America. AB - At mid-century, Americans increasingly fell in love with characters like Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye and Marlon Brando's Johnny in The Wild One, musicians like Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan, and activists like the members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. These emotions enabled some middle-class whites to cut free of their own histories and identify with those who, while lacking economic, political, or social privilege, seemed to possess instead vital cultural resources and a depth of feeling not found in "grey flannel" America. T1 - A nation of outsidershow the white middle class fell in love with rebellion in postwar America / DA - 2010. CY - Oxford ; CY - New York : AU - Hale, Grace Elizabeth. CN - Proquest Ebook Central CN - E169.12 PB - Oxford University Press, PP - Oxford ; PP - New York : PY - 2010. N1 - Description based on print version record. ID - 351573 KW - Popular culture KW - Whites KW - Middle class KW - Dissenters KW - Counterculture KW - Social psychology SN - 9780199792382 (electronic bk.) TI - A nation of outsidershow the white middle class fell in love with rebellion in postwar America / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=631632 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=631632 ER -