The exceptional economic conditions in post World War II America allowed the development and growth of a generation or two, which in such conditions did not recognize the reality of this exceptionality.
A German historian, one who had been in a German prisoner of war camp knew and presented muc of this to me four decades ago, but it took me time to recognize it, as is sometimes necessary, on my own.
Stephen Lapeyrouse . . . Notes Dropped Along the Way 