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 Author Name: Horowitz, Daniel
Title: Vance Packard and American Social Criticism
Book Condition: Good.
ISBN Number: 0807821411 / 9780807821411
Seller ID: 0520L965990
Hardcover. Hardcover with dustjacket 1994 University of North Carolina Press. Clean and unmarked; pages bright; binding tight. Only light wear; tiny repaired jacket rip. 400pp. Language: English. NOTE: Cannot ship outside U.S. via Global Priority -- Surface or Airmail only. '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- ) is a journalist who played an influential role as the largely complacent 1950s gave way to the tumultuous 1960s. He is also one of the first social critics to foster and to benefit from the newly energized social and political consciousness of this period. ... [H]is later books explore many of the forces shaping America, including invasion of privacy, changing sexual mores, the uprooting of families, and the rise of the ultra rich in the Reagan era. The titles of Packard's most famous works have become a part of our everyday vocabulary. Based in part on interviews with Packard, Daniel Horowitz's intellectual biography focuses on the period during which Packard wrote his major works of social criticism....'--from the publisher.
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