The Status Seekers
Author | : Vance Packard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Social classes |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Vance Packard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Social classes |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Vance Packard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Social classes |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Vance Packard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Social classes |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Daniel Horowitz |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0807862118 |
Vance Packard's bestselling books--Hidden Persuaders (1957), Status Seekers (1959), and Waste Makers (1960)--taught the generation 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- ) was a journalist who played an important role in the nation's transition from the largely complacent 1950s to the tumultuous 1960s. He was also one of the first social critics to benefit from and foster the newly energized social and political consciousness of this period. 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. Horowitz traces the influence of Packard's education and early years in rural Pennsylvania, providing a deeper understanding of his thought and his later books. Packard's life, Horowitz contends, illuminates the dilemmas of a freelance social critic without inherited wealth or academic affiliation. His career also expands our understanding of how one era shaped the next, underscoring how the adversarial 1960s drew on the mass culture of the previous decade. Originally published in 1994. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author | : Vance Packard |
Publisher | : Bedford/St. Martin's |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 1995-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312111809 |
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 critical reception.
Author | : Vance Oakley Packard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John M. Murtagh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2018-08-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781479440870 |
"Listen, Marilyn, you ain't no more to me than any other chick. I'll get you the stuff if you got any bread to pay me with." "Give me one shot on credit, for old time's sake." "Like I told you before, I'm telling you again. Plenty of fellows I know would go for a girl like you." He chuckled. "I know how to get in touch with them for ten percent of everything you make." "Can you get somebody for me right now, so I can have my shot?"
Author | : Vance Packard |
Publisher | : Ig Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780978843106 |
A discussion of how modern advertising attempts to control our thoughts and desires in order to make us buy the products it produces. Exploring the use of consumer motivational research and other psychological techniques, including subliminal tactics, this book shows how advertisers secretly manipulate mass desire for consumer goods and products. In addition, Packard also discusses advertising in politics, predicting the way image and personality rapidly came to overshadow real issues in the televised age.
Author | : Vance Packard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Genetic engineering |
ISBN | : 9780170052962 |
Author | : Vance Packard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Social classes |
ISBN | : |