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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)

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 ...

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Transplantings: Essays on Great German Poets with Translations more books like this

by Peter Viereck, Irving Louis Horowitz (Editor), Daniel Weissbort (Preface by)

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 ...

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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

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 ...

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