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Business as Usual : How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century
Product Code:
9780226835129
ISBN13:
9780226835129
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$135.22
Business as Usual : How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century
$135.22
Caroline Jack reveals how specifically American capitalism has been created and made to seem inevitable through the propagation of its rhetoric and values in the most ephemeral of materials: public service announcements, pamphlets, educational films, and games-what she calls collectively economic education media." These items, which found their ways into classrooms and onto the airwaves, promoted a distinctive conservatism under the cloaks of public service and civic education, linking and defining such protean terms as "the American way of life" and "free enterprise." This rhetoric remains dominant-a harbinger of the power of disinformation that so besets us today"--
| Author: Caroline Jack |
| Publisher: NA |
| Publication Date: Oct 22, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: 022683512X |
| ISBN-13: 9780226835129 |
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