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Author | : Sloan Wilson |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2009-03-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0786729260 |
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Universally acclaimed when first published in 1955, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit captured the mood of a generation. Its title -- like Catch-22 and Fahrenheit 451 -- has become a part of America's cultural vocabulary. Tom Rath doesn't want anything extraordinary out of life: just a decent home, enough money to support his family, and a career that won't crush his spirit. After returning from World War II, he takes a PR job at a television network. It is inane, dehumanizing work. But when a series of personal crises force him to reexamine his priorities -- and take responsibility for his past -- he is finally moved to carve out an identity for himself. This is Sloan Wilson's searing indictment of a society that had just begun to lose touch with its citizens. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is a classic of American literature and the basis of the award-winning film starring Gregory Peck. "A consequential novel." -- Saturday Review
Author | : Sloan Wilson |
Publisher | : William Morrow |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is a novel about the American search for purpose in a world dominated by business. Tom and Betsy Rath share a struggle to find contentment in their hectic and material culture while several other characters fight essentially the same battle, but struggle in it for different reasons. In the end, it is a story of taking responsibility for one's own life. The book was largely autobiographical, drawing on Wilson's experiences as assistant director of the US National Citizen Commission for Public Schools.
Author | : Sloan Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jon-Jon Goulian |
Publisher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Androgyny (Psychology) |
ISBN | : 9781400068111 |
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For fans of Sean Wilsey's "Oh the Glory of It All," and the hilarious neuroticism of "Portnoy's Complaint" comes an entertaining and unflinchingly honest memoir about an unforgettable and unique coming-of-age.
Author | : Sloan Wilson |
Publisher | : Arbor House Publishing |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sloan Wilson |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2009-03-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0786729260 |
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Universally acclaimed when first published in 1955, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit captured the mood of a generation. Its title -- like Catch-22 and Fahrenheit 451 -- has become a part of America's cultural vocabulary. Tom Rath doesn't want anything extraordinary out of life: just a decent home, enough money to support his family, and a career that won't crush his spirit. After returning from World War II, he takes a PR job at a television network. It is inane, dehumanizing work. But when a series of personal crises force him to reexamine his priorities -- and take responsibility for his past -- he is finally moved to carve out an identity for himself. This is Sloan Wilson's searing indictment of a society that had just begun to lose touch with its citizens. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is a classic of American literature and the basis of the award-winning film starring Gregory Peck. "A consequential novel." -- Saturday Review
Author | : William H. Whyte |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2013-05-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0812209265 |
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Regarded as one of the most important sociological and business commentaries of modern times, The Organization Man developed the first thorough description of the impact of mass organization on American society. During the height of the Eisenhower administration, corporations appeared to provide a blissful answer to postwar life with the marketing of new technologies—television, affordable cars, space travel, fast food—and lifestyles, such as carefully planned suburban communities centered around the nuclear family. William H. Whyte found this phenomenon alarming. As an editor for Fortune magazine, Whyte was well placed to observe corporate America; it became clear to him that the American belief in the perfectibility of society was shifting from one of individual initiative to one that could be achieved at the expense of the individual. With its clear analysis of contemporary working and living arrangements, The Organization Man rapidly achieved bestseller status. Since the time of the book's original publication, the American workplace has undergone massive changes. In the 1990s, the rule of large corporations seemed less relevant as small entrepreneurs made fortunes from new technologies, in the process bucking old corporate trends. In fact this "new economy" appeared to have doomed Whyte's original analysis as an artifact from a bygone day. But the recent collapse of so many startup businesses, gigantic mergers of international conglomerates, and the reality of economic globalization make The Organization Man all the more essential as background for understanding today's global market. This edition contains a new foreword by noted journalist and author Joseph Nocera. In an afterword Jenny Bell Whyte describes how The Organization Man was written.
Author | : Brian Baker |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2006-04-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1847141498 |
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This book looks at a wide range of fiction and film texts, from the 1950s to the present, in order to analyse the ways in which masculinity has been represented in popular culture in Britain and the United States. It covers numerous genres, including spy fiction, science fiction, the Western and police thrillers. Each chapter focuses on key forms of masculinity found in each genre, such as the 'double agent', the 'rogue cop' and the 'citizen-soldier'. Brian Baker takes a broad, contextual approach, placing a detailed discussion of key texts and issues concerning masculinity in their historical and cultural context. Written in a clear, accessible way, it explores the changing representation of men over the last fifty years.
Author | : Christopher Breward |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2016-04-15 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 1780235585 |
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A beautifully tailored history of this fashion staple—at once a garment of tradition, power, and subversion. The Suit unpicks the story of this most familiar garment, from its emergence in western Europe at the end of the seventeenth century to today. Suit-wearing figures such as the Savile Row gentleman and the Wall Street businessman have long embodied ideas of tradition, masculinity, power, and respectability, but the suit has also been used to disrupt concepts of gender and conformity. Adopted and subverted by women, artists, musicians, and social revolutionaries through the decades—from dandies and Sapeurs to the Zoot Suit and Le Smoking—the suit is also a device for challenging the status quo. For all those interested in the history of menswear, this beautifully illustrated book offers new perspectives on this most mundane, and poetic, product of modern culture.
Author | : Sloan Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 9780380536115 |
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A young man of 22 is drawn almost impetuously to the Coast Guard by the onset of war in December 1941. He serves, first as executive officer, then as captain of the Arluk, a converted fishing trawler refitted to serve during World War 2 in the icy waters and coast of Greenland. Paul Schuman, the young hero, is shown at the beginning of the story as unsure in his life and marriage, and we watch him during the novel, while continuing to fight internal uncertainties, growing in confidence and competence.