Vance Packard and American Social Criticism - Tapa blanda

"[Packard's] books constituted an enormously influential criticism of American culture after the Second World War. . . . Packard deserves a place alongside more formidably intellectual figures in any history of twentieth-century American social thought."--"New Republic" "[Horowitz] offers a wealth of insight into twentieth-century journalism, homegrown American liberalism, and the role of the popular intellectual."--"American Historical Review" "Drawing extensively on Packard's writings and supplementing them with personal interviews, Horowitz has produced a first-rate biography that neither romanticizes nor diminishes his subject. . . . The reader is treated to a balanced, thoroughly researched and thoughtful biography."--"Journal of Social History" ""Vance Packard and American Social Criticism" combines a perceptive intellectual biography with an evocative exploration of larger issues in American life over the twentieth century. It is a model study."--"Journal of American History" "A graceful, probing biography of a famous critic of consumption, affluence, and American life. . . . Combines a perceptive intellectual biography with an evocative exploration of larger issues in American life over the twentieth century. A model study."--"Journal of American History"

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