The Conquest of Cool
Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
322 pages, 19 halftones, 8 tables 5-3/4 x 9
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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
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