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Advertising at War : Business, Consumers, and Government in the 1940s /

'Advertising at War' challenges the notion that advertising disappeared as a political issue in the United States in 1938 with the passage of the Wheeler-Lea Amendment to the Federal Trade Commission Act, the result of more than a decade of campaigning to regulate the advertising industry....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stole, Inger L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude to war
  • Advertising navigates the defense economy
  • The initial year of the Advertising Council
  • The consumer movement's return
  • Advertising, Washington, and the renamed War Advertising Council
  • The increasing role of the War Advertising Council
  • Peace and the reconversion of the Advertising Council.