Fables Of Abundance: A Cultural History Of Advertising In America

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Fables of Abundance ranges from the traveling peddlers of early modern Europe to the twentieth-century American corporation, exploring the ways that advertising collaborated with other cultural institutions to produce the dominant aspirations and anxieties in the modern United States..

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Jackson Lears is the author of No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920, and the editor (with Richard Fox) of The Culture of Consumption and The Power of Culture. He is professor of history at Rutgers University.