this week we join university of colorado history professor thomas zeiler where he discusses american abundance and prosperity in the 1950s and early 1960s. this is about 50 minutes. >>> we are going to pick up from where we left off on monday. there we left off on prosperity. i know i was getting excited about the american dream. we are going to talk about a period, late '40s, 50s and '60s today and about culture. a lot of this, i am going to hit you very hard with the critics argument. the critic's argument, then we are going to come back and deal with the appraiser. now you know that on monday we talked a lot about some of the tension of politics of the '40s and early '50s. now we are going to move into what the 50s meant. you see california dreaming we'll start with. one of my favorite places in the country. and of course a place that everybody wants to go to. we have californians in here? southern california? it's heaven. even if you're a new york e or from new jersey, but even if you're a new yorker, while new york city is an international city, los angeles is the american city.