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Vance Packard & American social criticism /
Vance Packard's number-one bestsellers - Hidden Persuaders (1957), Status Seekers (1959), and Waste Makers (1960) - taught the generation of Americans that came of age in the late 1950s and early 1960s about the dangers posed by advertising, social climbing, and planned obsolescence. Like Betty...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©1994.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Growing up absurd: From Granville Summit to State College, 1914-1932
- Starting out in the thirties: Penn State, 1932-1936
- White collar: Columbia graduate school of journalism, Boston Daily Record, and Associated Press, 1936-1942
- The man in the gray flannel suit: Darien, New Canaan and American Magazine, 1942-1956
- The medium is the message: American magazine, 1942-1956
- Making it: three best-sellers, 1957-1960
- Marginal man: the emergence of an American social critic
- The lonely crowd: readers respond to The Hidden Persuaders, The Status seekers, and The Waste makers
- The crack in the picture window: the response of critics to the trilogy
- A station wagon driver in the suburb: Moralism and its contradictions
- Future shock, 1960-1968: The Pyramid climbers, The Naked society, and The Sexual wilderness
- The cultural contradictions of capitalism, 1969-1984: A Nation of strangers, The People shapers, and Our Endangered children
- Barbarians at the gate, 1984-1989: The Ultra Rich.