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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Inger L Stole |
| ISBN: | 9780252037122 025203712X 9780252078651 0252078659 |
| OCLC Number: | 788268039 |
| Description: | viii, 263 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Prelude to war -- Advertising navigates the defense economy -- The initial year of the Advertising Council -- The consumer movement's return -- Advertising, Washington, and the renamed War Advertising Council -- The increasing role of the War Advertising Council -- Peace and the reconversion of the Advertising Council. |
| Series Title: | History of communication. |
| Responsibility: | Inger L. Stole. |
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"Well conceived and judiciously argued, Advertising at War shows how the World War II years were critical to solidifying advertising's place as one of the basic institutions of American society and economy. Stole provides insight into the advertising industry's campaign to defend itself and free enterprise as well as the wartime consumer movement." Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, author of Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio Read more...
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