Vance Packard and American Social Criticism |
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| Author:
| Horowitz, Daniel |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-5735-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2011 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $126.00AUD $81.00 |
Book Description:
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Vance Packard's bestselling books taught the generation that came of age in the early 1960s about the dangers posed by advertising, social climbing, and planned obsolescence. Based in part on interviews with Packard, Daniel Horowitz's intellectual biography focuses on the period during which Packard left magazine writing to author his most famous works of social criticism.
Vance Packard's bestselling books taught the generation that came of age in the early 1960s about the dangers posed by advertising, social climbing, and planned obsolescence. Based in part on interviews with Packard, Daniel Horowitz's intellectual biography focuses on the period during which Packard left magazine writing to author his most famous works of social criticism.