Publication

2020 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago (Illinois)

Language

English

Word Count

75,250 words, Guess

Page Count

301 pages

Physical Format

E-book

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC659.1092 [B]—dc23
  • LCCHF5810.R56 W39 2020

Description

"Ellen Wayland-Smith's ambitious and revealing book is in one sense a biography of Jean Wade Rindlaub, a major yet little-known figure in postwar American advertising, responsible for many of the most influential campaigns for domestic products (Betty Crocker, Chiquita Bananas, etc.). Yet it goes much farther by plumbing not merely midcentury American corporate capitalism but the religious and geopolitical beliefs that advertising embodied and propounded. Rindlaub's own Calvinistic beliefs and her embrace of the corporation were central to the commodification and repackaging of American women's needs and desires in the postwar world. This is riveting cultural history built around a fascinating yet normative woman who used her considerable power in the workplace to encourage other women to stick to their kitchens, both figuratively and literally"--

First Sentence

In 1977, long before Mad Men, Patricia Tierney revealed the life of a sheep among the wolves of Madison Avenue in the 1960s.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Angel in the Marketplace: Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of Americae-bookUniversity of Chicago Press2020-01-01

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