What caused the economic boom of the 1950s and 1960s? How did it affect the lives of Americans at work and at home?

What were the reasons for the emerging discontent in American society during the 1950s? Was there any common link among the critics that arose during this decade?

How would you define "Eisenhower Republicanism"? In what ways did it succeed both at home and abroad? In what ways did it fail?