Vance Packard & American social criticism / by Horowitz, Daniel, 1938-

“…Vance Packard and American social criticism.…”

Vance Packard & American social criticism / by Horowitz, Daniel, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Growing up absurd: From Granville Summit to State College, 1914-1932 -- Starting out in the thirties: Penn State, 1932-1936 -- White collar: Columbia graduate school of journalism, Boston Daily Record, and Associated Press, 1936-1942 -- The man in the gray flannel suit: Darien, New Canaan and American Magazine, 1942-1956 -- The medium is the message: American magazine, 1942-1956 -- Making it: three best-sellers, 1957-1960 -- Marginal man: the emergence of an American social critic -- The lonely crowd: readers respond to The Hidden Persuaders, The Status seekers, and The Waste makers -- The crack in the picture window: the response of critics to the trilogy -- A station wagon driver in the suburb: Moralism and its contradictions -- Future shock, 1960-1968: The Pyramid climbers, The Naked society, and The Sexual wilderness -- The cultural contradictions of capitalism, 1969-1984: A Nation of strangers, The People shapers, and Our Endangered children -- Barbarians at the gate, 1984-1989: The Ultra Rich.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The legacy of the yakeato generation: Oda Makoto's literary social criticism /…”
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Dreaming suburbia : Detroit and the production of postwar space and culture / by Kenyon, Amy Maria

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The dust of death : the sixties counterculture and how it changed America forever / by Guinness, Os

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