Vance Packard & American Social Criticism

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 1994 - 375 pages
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 climbi
 

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VI
24
VII
42
VIII
59
IX
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X
102
XI
132
XIV
206
XV
223
XVI
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XVII
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XIX
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XX
283
XXI
337
XXII
361

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XIII
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About the author (1994)

Daniel Horowitz, professor of American studies and history at Smith College, is author of The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875-1940.

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