"One of the best books around for demystifying the deliberately mysterious arts of advertising."--Salon "Fascinating, entertaining and thought-stimulating."--The New York Times Book Review "A brisk, authoritative and frightening report on how manufacturers, fundraisers and politicians are attempting to turn the American mind into a kind of ...
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 ...
In this account, "Fortune" magazine writer Gary Hector writes about a banking story of the 1980s. Once a symbol of America's banking prowess, today Bank America is struggling to salvage the remnants of its glorious past. How the bank that A.P.Giannini, the American-born son of an impoverished Italian immigrant family, built "for the little fellow" ...
Examines the invasion of privacy in the United States by government, business, and education. Describes surveillance techniques and tools of investigative experts.
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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