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1	American Social Classes in the 1950s: Selections from Vance Packard's the Status Seekers more books like this by Vance Packard (Editor), Daniel Horowitz (Editor) add to wishlist This abridged edition of Vance Packard's 1959 "The Status Seekers" presents a picture of American society in the late 1950s that allows students to develop a more accurate and complex understanding of an often-caricatured era. Daniel Horowitz's introduction provides historical context, an assssment of the book's impact, and a discussion of its ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.45! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Vance Packard & American Social Criticism more books like this by Daniel Horowitz add to wishlist 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 Friedan and William H. Whyte, Jr., Packard (1914- ) ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society in America 1875-1940 more books like this by Daniel Horowitz add to wishlist A history of Americans' misgivings about the consequences of their comfort, affluence, and luxury. see all copies from $2.31! new only from $12.54! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Jimmy Carter and the Energy Crisis of the 1970s: The "Crisis of Confidence" Speech of July 15, 1979: A Brief History with Documents more books like this by Daniel Horowitz add to wishlist In a decade of constant crises, perhaps the most formidable challenge that Americans faced in the 1970s was the energy shortage. An era of inexpensive and seemingly unlimited supplies of oil came to an end with the OPEC oil embargo of 1973 and strained the nation's economy for the remainder of the decade. In his "Crisis of Confidence" speech, one ... see all copies from $4.94! new only from $9.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Italian Labor Movement more books like this by Daniel L Horowitz add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00! signed copies \| first editions
6	Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism more books like this by Daniel Horowitz add to wishlist Ever since the 1963 publication of her landmark book, The Feminie Mystique, Betty Friedan has insisted that her commitment to women's rights grew out of her experiences as an alienated suburban housewife. Yet as Daniel Horowitz persuasively demonstrates in this illuminating and provocative biography, the roots of Friedan's feminism run much depper ... see all copies from $4.82! first editions \| SVS
7	The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979 more books like this by Daniel Horowitz add to wishlist A wide-ranging exploration of conflicting American attitudes toward affluence This book charts the reactions of prominent American writers to the unprecedented prosperity of the decades following World War II. It begins with an examination of Lewis Mumford's war-time call for "democratic" consumption and concludes with an analysis of the origins ... see all copies from $29.54! new only from $29.54! \| SVS
8	Betty Friedan -Cw more books like this by Daniel Horowitz add to wishlist Daniel Horowitz provides new background into Betty Friedan's "lost years" of the 1950s, when she was a community organizer and leftist. He asserts that she played down her associations and may have projected a somewhat false, yet effective, persona in her best selling THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE. see all copies from $7.96! new only from $22.42! \| SVS
9	Transplantings: Essays on Great German Poets with Translations more books like this by Peter Viereck, Irving Louis Horowitz (Editor), Daniel Weissbort (Preface by) add to wishlist On being told that "translation is an impossible thing," Anatole France replied: "precisely, my friend; the recognition of that truth is a necessary preliminary to success in art." The task of Transplantings is to add flesh and bones to that familiar quip. Indeed, Daniel Weissbort notes that Viereck's study represented a sixty-five year long ... see all copies from $34.22! new only from $34.22! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Anxieties of Affluence more books like this by Daniel Horowitz add to wishlist This work charts the reactions of prominent American writers to the unprecedented prosperity of the decades following World War II. It begins with an examination of Lewis Mumford's wartime call for "democratic" consumption and concludes with an analysis of the origins of Jimmy Carter's "malaise" speech of 1979. It documents a broad range of ... see all copies from $24.89!
11	American Social Classes in the 1950s: Selections from Vance Packard's the Status Seekers more books like this by Daniel Horowitz (Editor), Vance Oakley Packard add to wishlist This volume offers an abridgment of The Status Seekers, Vance Packard's influential and popular study of social status and stratification in 1950s America. An introductory essay places Packard and his book in their historical context and discusses the role that social criticism played during the nation's transition from '50s complacency to '60s ... see all copies from $24.95!
12	Phantom reductions : tracking toxic trends more books like this by G. V. Poje, Daniel M. Horowitz add to wishlist see all copies from $250.00!

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