After the end of the Second World War, the U.S. was prosperous beyond the dreams of the Europeans and Asians whose economies had been destroyed by the war.
During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the postwar confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish.
Despite a happy student summer at Harvard, he bridled at America's overweening ways, arguing for a multi-polar world as a way to counter its post-war dominance.
Decades of demographic, religious and societal change, raising questions about the relevance of the monarchy today, 1953 was full of post-war joie de vivre and excitement about a new young queen.
By the time normal life started again after the war, land-based aircraft had developed rapidly, and flying boats were looking increasingly out of date.
The doubling of the population of Freetown in the years that followed the civil war, and the lack of planning and building control resulted in massive deforestation.
In the book, he pointed out that a majority of the post war Japanese prime ministers were blood type O and that many successful baseball players from Japan and Korea were blood type O or type B.
他在书中指出,很多战后的日本首相们是 O 型血,以及很多自日本和韩国的棒球运动员的血型都是 O 型或者 B 型。