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Vance Packards 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. Raised on a Pennsylvania farm, shaped by the New Deal at home and the rise of fascism abroad, and trained as a journalist, Packard turned to writing nonfiction books when he faced unemployment in 1956. In addition to his three best-known early works, his 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 Packards most famous works have become a part of our everyday vocabulary. Based in part on interviews with Packard, Daniel Horowitzs intellectual biography focuses on the period during which Packard wrote his major works of social criticism. Horowitz also traces the influence of the writers early family life and education on his thought. Packards life illuminates the dilemmas of a freelance social critic without inherited wealth or academic affiliation: the tension between making a living and sustaining independence; the problems posed by a dramatically fluctuating royalty income; and the impact of changing relationships with audience,publishers, intellectuals, academics, and new media such as television and the New Journalism. Packards career also expands our understanding of how one era helped create the next, underscoring how the adversarial 1960s drew on the mass culture of the previous decade.

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Vance Packard & American Social Criticism
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title:Vance Packard & American Social Criticism
author:Horowitz, Daniel.
publisher:University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin:0807821411
print isbn13:9780807821411
ebook isbn13:9780807862117
language:English
subjectPackard, Vance Oakley,--1914- , Journalists--United States--Biography, United States--Social conditions--1945-
publication date:1994
lcc:HM22.U6P274 1994eb
ddc:301/.092
subject:Packard, Vance Oakley,--1914- , Journalists--United States--Biography, United States--Social conditions--1945-
1994 by Daniel Horowitz
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Horowitz, Daniel, 1938
Vance Packard and American social criticism / Daniel Horowitz.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8078-2141-1 (alk. paper)
1. Packard, Vance Oakley, 1914-. 2. Sociologists-United
States-Biography. 3. Historians-United States-Biography.
4. Journalists-United States-Biography.
5. United States-Social conditions-1945- . I. Title.
HM22.U6P274Picture 31994
301'.092-dc20Picture 4Picture 5Picture 6Picture 793-35608
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The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
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With love and admiration to
Benjamin Horowitz and Sarah Esther Horowitz
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Contents
Illustrations
ix
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xv
Introduction
1
1.Growing Up Absurd
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From Granville Summit to State College, 1914-1932
2. Starting Out in the Thirties
24
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Penn State, 1932-1936
3. White Collar
42
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Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Boston Daily Record, and Associated Press, 1936-1942
4. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
59
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Darien, New Canaan, and American Magazine, 1942-1950
5. The Medium is the Message
78
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American Magazine, 1942-1956
6. Making It
102
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Three Best-sellers, 1957-1960
7. Marginal Man
132
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The Emergence of an American Social Critic
8. The Lonely Crowd
158
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Readers Respond to The Hidden Persuaders, The Status Seekers, and The Waste Makers
9. The Crack In the Picture Window
179
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The Response of Critics to the Trilogy
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