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Thomas Frank

The Conquest of Cool

Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism

322 pages, 19 halftones, 8 tables  5-3/4 x 9  © 1997

Cloth $22.95

ISBN: 9780226259918   Published December 1997

Paper $17.50

ISBN: 9780226260129   Published December 1998

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Acknowledgments
1. A Cultural Perpetual Motion Machine: Management Theory and Consumer Revolution in the 1960s
2. Buttoned Down: High Modernism on Madison Avenue
3. Advertising as Cultural Criticism: Bill Bernbach versus the Mass Society
4. Three Rebels: Advertising Narratives of the Sixties
5. "How Do We Break These Conformists of Their Conformity?": Creativity Conquers All
6. Think Young: Youth Culture and Creativity
7. The Varieties of Hip: Advertisements of the 1960s
8. Carnival and Cola: Hip versus Square in the Cola Wars
9. Fashion and Flexibility
10. Hip and Obsolescence
11. Hip as Official Capitalist Style
Appendix
Notes
Index
Subjects



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