Brought to You By: Postwar Television Advertising and the American Dream

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University of Texas Press, 2001 - Performing Arts - 266 pages
This book is a history of how television advertising rose to become a defining force in American culture in the two decades after World War II.
 

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The Precocious Prodigy 19461952
3
Shower of Stars 19531955
46
The Spark Plug of Prosperity 19561958
87
A Mist Settling on Our Pond 19591960
122
Think Young 19611962
153
The Psychic Air We Breathe 19631964
182
Conclusion
221
Notes
229
Index
252
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LAWRENCE R. SAMUEL is the founder of Culture Planning LLC, a consultancy for Fortune 500 companies. He is the author of Pledging Allegiance: American Identity and the Bond Drive of World War II; Brought to You By: Postwar Television Advertising and the American Dream; and The End of the Innocence: The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair. He lives in Miami Beach and New York City.

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