Advertising 1920s-1980s
Acland, Charles R. Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.
Adams, Edward E., and Rajiv Sekhri. “Daily Newspaper Advertising Trends During World War II: IRS Tax Rulings and the War Bond Drives.” American Journalism 12:3 (1995): 201-12.
Atwan, Robert, Donald McQuade, and John Wright. Edsels, Luckies, and Frigidaires: Advertising the American Way. New York: Delacourt Press, 1979.
Asquith, Kyle. “Knowing the Child Consumer Through Box Tops: Data Collection, Measurement, and Advertising to Children, 1920-1945.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 32:2 (June 2015): 112-127.
Baker, Samm Sinclair. The Permissible Lie: The Inside Truth About Advertising. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1968.
Beard, Fred K. “Hard-Sell ‘Killers’ and Soft-Sell ‘Poets:’ Modern Advertising’s Enduring Message Strategy Debate.” Journalism History 30:3 (Fall 2004): 141-149.
Becker, Jane S. Selling Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of American Folk, 1930-1940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Beito, D. T. “The National Pay-Your-Taxes Campaign: Advertising for Political Legitimacy During the Great Depression.” Journal of Policy History 2:4 (1990): 388.
Belasco, Warren, and Philip Scranton, eds. Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Berolzheimer, Alan Roy. “A Nation of Consumers: Mass Consumption, Middle Class Standards of Living, and American National Identity, 1910-1950.” PhD dissertation, University of Virginia, 1996.
Bishop, Thomas. “The Struggle to Sell Survival: Family Fallout Shelters and the Limits of Consumer Citizenship.” Modern American History 2:2 (July 2019): 117-138.
Blaszczyk, Regina Lee, ed. Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture, and Consumers. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Booker, M. Keith, and Bob Batchelor. Mad Men: A Cultural History. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016.
Brasted, Monica. “Advertising Success Through Consumption.” Advertising and Society Review 7:1 (2006).
Brinkley, Sam. Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
Brown, Bruce. Images of Family Life in Magazine Advertising, 1920-1978. New York: Praeger, 1981.
Buxton, Edward. Promise Them Anything: The Inside Story of a Madison Avenue Power Struggle. New York: Stein and Day, 1972.
Cardwell, Curt Michael. “NSC 68 and the Foreign Policy of Postwar Prosperity: Political Economy, Consumer Culture, and the Cold War.” PhD dissertation, Rutgers University, 2006.
Carter, David E. “The Changing Face of Life’s Advertisements, 1950-1966.” Journalism Quarterly 46 (Spring 1969): 87-93.
Centanni, Rebecca. “Advertising in Life Magazine and the Encouragement of Suburban Ideals.” Advertising & Society Review 12: 3 (2011).
Cohen, Lizabeth. “The New Deal State and the Making of Citizen Consumers” in Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century, Susan Strasser, et.al., eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. New York: Random House, 2003.
Copeland, Melvin Thomas. Principles of Merchandising. Chicago: A.W. Shaw, 1927.
Cracknell, Andrew. The Real Mad Men: The Remarkable True Story of Madison Avenue’s Golden Age. New York: Running Press, 2012.
Craig, Steve. “Madison Avenue Versus The Feminine Mystique: The Advertising Industry’s Response to the Women’s Movement.” in Disco Divas: Women and Popular Culture in the 1970s, Sherrie A. Inness, ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
Craig, Steve, and Terry Moellinger. “So Rich, Mild, and Fresh: A Critical Look at TV Cigarette Commercials, 1948-1971.” Journal of Communication Inquiry 25:1 (January 2001): 55-71.
Cross, Gary. Time and Money: The Making of a Consumer Culture. New York: Routledge, 1993.
Cross, Gary. An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won Out in Modern America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
Cross, Gary. Consumed Nostalgia: Memory in the Age of Fast Capitalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.
Crawford, Elizabeth Crisp. Tobacco Goes to College: Cigarette Advertising in Student Media, 1920-1980. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014.
Davis, Joshua C. “Consumer Liberation: Baby Boomers, Hip Businesses, and the Challenge to Mass Consumption, 1968–1983. PhD dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2010.
Davis, Simone Weil. “Shrinking from Scrutiny, Seeking the Light: Advertising and the Self in American Commodity Culture, 1920-1932.” PhD dissertation, University of California- Berkeley, 1996.
Della Femina, Jerry. From Those Wonderful Folks Who Brought You Pearl Harbor: Front-Line Dispatches from the Advertising War. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970.
Dione, Jill Francesca. “Body Image: Fashioning the Postwar American.” PhD dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2009.
Dobrow, Larry. When Advertising Tried Harder: The Sixties, The Golden Age of American Advertising. New York: Friendly Press, 1984.
Donahue, Kathleen G. “Conceptualizing the Good Society: The Idea of the Consumer and Modern America.” PhD dissertation, University of Virginia, 1996.
Donahue, Kathleen G. Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Douglas, Mary and Baron Isherwood, The World of Goods: Towards an Anthropology of Consumption. New York: Routledge, 1996.
Durstein, Roy S. This Advertising Business. New York: Scribner’s, 1928.
Esperdy, Gabrielle. Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Ewen, Stuart, and Elizabeth Ewen. Channels of Desire: Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousness. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.
Fic, Christy. “Marketing Ivory Soap to Tourists: How Proctor & Gamble Branded the Packing Ritual.” Journal of American Culture 41:1 (2018): 121-138.
Fox, Richard W. and Jackson Lears, eds., The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History 1880-1980. New York: Pantheon, 1983.*
This is a clever collection of essays on various aspects of consumer culture in the United States in the last 100 or so years. The authors try to explain the effects of the rise of advertising and consumerism on other aspects of society, for example literature, political campaigns, and science. The two most interesting essays are Lears’ selection on the rise of the “therapeutic ethos” that emerged in the early 20th century and seemed to offer the solution to all of life’s problems via consumption and Christopher P. Wilson’s selection on magazine readership and the tendency of editors to view readers as a commodity to sell advertisers rather than a group of like-minded individuals who needed to be informed and entertained. Other essays discuss consumerism in the writing of Henry James, the “selling” of political candidates, and the “selling” of the space race and “commodity” science.
Frank, Thomas C. The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture and the Rise of Hip Consumerism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Frey, Albert W., and Kenneth R. Davis. The Advertising Industry. New York: Association of National Advertisers, 1958.
Friedman, Monroe. “Brand-Name Use in News Columns of American Newspapers Since 1964.” Journalism Quarterly 63 (1986): 161-66.
Friedman, Monroe. A ‘Brand’ New Language: Commercial Influences in Literature and Culture. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1991.
Glatzer, Robert. The New Advertising: Great Campaigns from Avis to Volkswagen. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1970.
Gold, Philip. Advertising, Politics and American Culture: From Salesmanship to Therapy. New York: Paragon House, 1987.
Goldstein, Carolyn M. Creating Consumers: Home Economists in the Twentieth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Goodlad, Lauren M.E., Lilya Kaganovsky, and Robert A. Rushing, eds. Mad Men, Mad World: Sex, Politics, Style, and the1960s. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.
Gordon, Ian. Comic Strips and Commercial Culture, 1890-1945. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.
Gordon, Leland. Consumers in Wartime. New York: Harpers and Brothers, 1943.
Gray, Jonathan. Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts. New York: New York University Press, 2010.
Griese, Noel L. “Rosser Reeves and the 1952 Eisenhower Spot TV Blitz.” Journal of Advertising 4 (1975): 34-38.
Haddow, Robert H. Pavilions of Plenty: Exhibiting American Culture Abroad in the 1950s. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.
Hambleton, Ronald. The Branding of America. Dublin, NH: Yankee Books, 1987.
Hansen, Glenn J., and William L. Benoit. “Presidential Television Advertising and Public Policy Priorities, 1952-2000.” Communication Studies 53:3 (Fall 2002): 284-296.
Harris, Neil. Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Haygood, Daniel M. “Hard Sell or Soft Sell? The Advertising Philosophies and Professional Relationship of Rosser Reeves and David Ogilvy.” American Journalism 33:2 (2016): 169-188.
Henthorn, Cynthia Lee. From Submarines to Suburbs: Selling a Better America, 1939–1959. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006.
Herzbrun, David J. Playing the Traffic on Madison Avenue: Tales of Advertising’s Golden Years. New York: McGraw Hill, 1990.
Hill, Daniel D. As Seen in Vogue: A Century of American Fashion Advertising. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2004.
Hilton, Matthew, “Consumers and the State since the Second World War.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 611 (May 2007): 66-81.
Hirsch, Glenn K. “Only You Can Prevent Ideological Hegemony: The Advertising Council and Its Place in the American Power Structure,” Insurgent Sociologist 5:3 (Spring 1975): 64-82.
Holme, Bryan. Advertising: Reflections of a Century. New York, Viking, 1982.
Hubbard, Elbert. Advertising and Advertisements. East Aurora, New York: Roycrafters, 1929.
Hurley, Andrew. Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in Postwar Consumer Culture. New York: Basic Books, 2002.
Hyman, Louis Roland. “Debtor Nation: How Consumer Credit Built Postwar America.” PhD dissertation, Harvard University, 2007.
Jacobs, Meg. “Democracy’s Third Estate: New Deal Politics and the Construction of a Consuming Public.” International Labor and Working Class History 55 (Spring 1999): 27-51.
Jacobs, Meg. Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.
Jacobs, Thomas. “Consuming Anxieties: Rituals of Acquisition, Collection, and Display in Mid-Twentieth Century American Culture.” PhD dissertation, New York University, 2007.
Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. Packaging the Presidency: A History of Criticism of Presidential Campaign Advertising. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Jensen, Ric, and Christopher Thomas. “To What Extent Did American Corporations Publish ‘Brag Ads’ During World War II?” Advertising and Society Review 10:2 (2009): ??
Johnson, David K. “Physique Pioneers: The Politics of 1960s Gay Consumer Culture.” Journal of Social History 43:4 (Summer 2010): 867-892.
Kaid, Lydia Lee, Dan D. Nimmo, and Keith R. Sanders, eds. New Perspectives on Political Advertising. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984.
Kammen, Michael. “Our Idealism is Practical: Emerging Uses of Tradition in American Consumer Culture.” in In the Past Lane: Historical Perspectives on American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
American advertisers and marketers increasingly became aware of the commercial value of heritage and tradition, and during this time period attempted to incorporate images of the past into commercial messages. Kammen examines the rise of George Washington’s birthday as not only a national celebration, but a day for widespread inventory reduction sales and heavy advertising, as well as the debate over the sale of “authentic” colonial furniture at Williamsburg. Discussed in greater detail is the Great Northern Railway’s historical expeditions of 1925 and 1926 when company president Ralph Budd created a tour of historical sites and reenactments around the Northwestern United States. By wrapping themselves in patriotic images and slogans from American history, advertisers are able to “do well by doing good,” supposedly promoting appreciation for American tradition and heritage while at the same time making a profit or at least generating goodwill for their businesses. According to Kammen, businesses can provide a valuable service by funding historical exhibits or documentaries and the preservation of sites, but that these endeavors should refrain from overt commercialization.
Kendall, Frederick C., ed. The New American Tempo, And other Articles on Modern Advertising and Selling Practice. New York: Advertising and Selling, 1927.
Lears, Jackson. “A Matter of Taste: Corporate Cultural Hegemony in a Mass Consumption Society” in Recasting America: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cold War, Lary May, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Lears, Jackson. Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America. New York: Basic Books, 1994.
Lebduska, Lisa. “Ivory Soap and American Popular Consciousness: Salvation Through Consumption.” Journal of Popular Culture 48:2 (April 2015): 385-398.
Lebergot, Stanley. Pursuing Happiness: American Consumers in the Twentieth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Levinson, Bob. Bill Bernbach’s Book: A History of Advertising that Changed the History of Advertising. New York: Villard, 1987.
Logemann, Jan. “Different Paths to Mass Consumption: Consumer Credit in the United States and West Germany during the 1950s and ‘60s.” Journal of Social History 41:3 (Spring 2008): 525-559.
Lois, George. The Art of Advertising: George Lois on Mass Communication. New York: Harry Abrams, 1977.
Lynes, Russell. The Tastemakers. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1949.
Lytle, Mark H. The All-Consuming Nation: Chasing the American Dream Since World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
McAllister, Matthew P., and Greg Eghigian. “Flying Saucers and UFOs in US Advertising During the Cold War, 1947-1989.” Advertising & Society Quarterly 23:3 (Fall 2022).
McCrossen, Alexis, ed. Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States- Mexico Borderlands. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.
McGovern, Charles. “Consumption and Citizenship in the United States, 1900-1940” in Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century, Susan Strasser, et.al., eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
McGovern, Charles F. Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890–1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Maddox, Lynda M., and Eric J. Zanot. “The Image of the Advertising Practitioner as Presented in the Mass Media, 1900-1972.” American Journalism 2:2 (1985): 117.
Marchand, Roland. Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
Marin, Allan, ed. Fifty Years of Advertising As Seen Through the Eyes of Advertising Age, 1930-1980. Chicago: Crain, 1980.
Matt, Susan J. Keeping Up with the Jones: Envy in American Consumer Society, 1890-1930. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
May, Jacqueline S. “American All! The Role of Advertising in Re-Imagining Ethnicity in America: The Case of the War Advertising Council, 1939-1945.” PhD dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2014.
Mayer, Martin. Madison Avenue U.S.A.: New York: Harper, 1958.
Mayer, Martin. What Ever Happened to Madison Avenue? Boston: Little, Brown, 1991.
Mayer, Robert R. “Business as Usual: American Consumer Culture and the Second World War.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Georgia, 1994.
Means, Gardiner C. “The Consumer and the New Deal.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 173 (1934): 7–17.
Melillo, Wendy. “Democracy’s Adventure Hero on a New Frontier: Bridging Language in the Ad Council’s Peace Corps Campaign, 1961–1970.” Journalism History 46:2 (June 2020): 145-164.
Meyers, Cynthia B. “Psychedelics and the Advertising Man: The 1960s Countercultural Creative on Madison Avenue.” Columbia Journal of American Studies 4:1 (2000): 114-127.
Meyers, William. The Image Makers: Power and Persuasion on Madison Avenue. New York: Times Books, 1984.
Micheletti, Michele. Political Virtue and Shopping: Individuals, Consumerism, and Collective Action. New York: Palgrave, 2003.
Milllman, Nancy. Emperors of Adland: Inside the Advertising Revolution. New York: Warner Books, 1988.
Montgomery, Edrene Stephens. “Bruce Barton and the Twentieth-Century Menace of Unreality.” PhD dissertation, University of Arkansas, 1984.
Montgomery, Edrene S. “Bruce Barton’s The Man Nobody Knows: A Popular Advertising Illustration.” Journal of Popular Culture 19:3 (Winter 1985): 21-34.
Moore, Charles Newkirk. “A Diamond is Forever: The Construction of Secular Immortality and De Beers Diamond Advertising, 1939-1958.” PhD dissertation, New Mexico State University, 2011.
Morello, John Anthony. “Candidates, Consumers, and Closers: Albert Lasker, Advertising, and Politics, 1900-1920.” PhD dissertation, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1998.
Moskowitz, Marina. Standard of Living: The Measure of Middle Class in Modern America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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National Association of Better Business Bureaus. A Guide for Retail Advertising and Selling. Cleveland: National Association of Better Business Bureaus, 1945.
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Olney, Martha. Buy Now, Pay Later: Advertising, Credit, and Consumer Demand in the 1920s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
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Pennock, Pamela E. Advertising Sin and Sickness: The Politics of Alcohol and Tobacco Marketing, 1950-1990. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007.
Petrick, Gabriella M. “The Arbiters of Taste: Producers, Consumers, and the Industrialization of Taste in America, 1900–1960.” PhD dissertation, University of Delaware, 2007.
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