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The Conquest Of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, And The Rise Of Hip Consumerism

Frank, Thomas

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While the youth counterculture remains the most evocative and best-remembered symbol of the cultural ferment of the 1960s, the revolution that shook American business during those boom years has gone largely unremarked. In this fascinating and revealing new study, Thomas Frank shows how the youthful revolutionaries were joined - and even anticipated by - such unlikely allies as the advertising industry and the men's clothing business. In both areas, each having also been an important pillar of fifties conservatism, the utopian, complacent surface of postwar consumerism was smashed by a new breed of admen and manufacturers who openly addressed public distrust of their industries, who recognized the absurdity of consumer society, who made war on conformity, and who finally settled on youth rebellion and counterculture as the symbol of choice for their new marketing vision.

Hardcover. English. University of Chicago Press. 1997. ISBN: 9780627027468. 322 pp. Good condition. Book No: 47284

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The Conquest Of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, And The Rise Of Hip Consumerism

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Biscuit Mill: Cultural Studies

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