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9 Atlantic Monthly, June 1992, p. 31.
10 Schrank, Snap, Crackle, and Popular Taste, p. 111.
11 Strasser, Never Done, p. 276.
12 Kowinski, The Mailing of America, pp. 104–5.
13 Business Week, 17 November 1957, p. 137.
14 Gruen and Smit, Shopping Town USA, p. 20.
15 Atlantic Monthly, May 1993, p. 132.
16 Kowinski, op. cit., p. 112.
17 Frieden and Sagalyn, op. cit., p. 13.
18 Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier, p. 261.
19 American Demographics, April 1990, p. 38.
20 Schor, The Overworked American, p. 107.
21 Atlantic Monthly, May 1993, p. 102.
22 The Economist, 29 August 1992, p. 37.
13: Domestic Matters
1 Blow (ed.), Abroad in America, p. 149.
2 Ibid., p. 139.
3 Ibid., p. 215
4 Garrett, At Home, p. 155.
5 Deetz, In Small Things Forgotten, p. 123
6 Elias, The History of Manners, vol. 1, p. 127.
7 American Heritage, December 1989, p. 106.
8 Flexner, I Hear America Talking, p. 19.
9 Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience, p. 135.
10 American Heritage, August/September 1978, p. 41.
11 Boorstin, op. cit., p. 141.
12 American Heritage, December 1989, p. 111.
13 Blow, op. cit., p. 159.
14 Rybczynski, Home, p. 139.
15 Ibid., p. 142.
16 Ibid., pp. 148–9.
17 Nye, Electrifying America, p. 242.
18 Strasser, Never Done, p. 76.
19 Nye, op. cit., p. 52.
20 American Heritage, November 1979, p. 78.
21 P. Smith, A People’s History of the United States, vol. 7, p. 856.
22 Johnson, Modern Times, p. 224.
23 American Heritage, September/October 1990, p. 58.
24 R. Barnhart (ed.), The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, p. 902.
25 Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience, p. 330.
26 New York Times, 1–3 July 1921.
27 Allen, Only Yesterday, p. 137.
28 The Economist, 28 August 1993, p. 57.
29 Sterling and Kittross, Stay Tuned, pp. 61–3.
30 Ibid., p. 60.
31 Schiller, Mass Communications and American Empire, p. 25.
32 Udelson, The Great Television Race, p. 12.
33 New York Times, 8 April 1927.
34 Quoted in Schrank, Snap, Crackle, and Popular Taste, p. 17.
35 Castleman and Podrazik, Watching TV, p. 16.
36 Ibid., p. 45.
37 Safire, Coming to Terms, p. 47.
38 Castleman and Podrazik, op. cit., p. v.
39 American Heritage, August/September 1984, p. 25.
40 Flatow, They All Laughed, p. 61.
41 Strasser, Never Done, p. 289.
42 Schor, The Overworked American, p. 8.
43 Rybczynski, Waiting for the Weekend, pp. 142–3.
44 Schor, op. cit., p. 22.
45 Utica (NY) Observer, 4 March 1991.
46 Schor, op. cit., p. 29.
47 Ibid., p. 2.
48 Ibid.
14: The Hard Sell: Advertising in America
1 Collins, The Story of Kodak, p. 49.
2 Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience, p. 374.
3 Collins, op. cit., pp. 54–5.
4 Ibid., p. 72.
5 Strasser, Satisfaction Guaranteed, pp. 46–7.
6 Flexner, Listening to America, p. 17.
7 Ibid., p. 22.
8 Strasser, op. cit., p. 97.
9 Time, 13 June 1927, p. 12.
10 American Heritage, October 1977, p. 67.
11 Mencken, The American Language, 4th edn., p. 218.
12 American Heritage, October 1977, pp. 64–9.
13 Ibid., September/October 1990, p. 56.
14 The Economist, 7 September 1991, p. 89.
15 Ibid., 14 August 1993, p. 7.
16 New York Times magazine, 7 July 1957, p. 14.
17 Diamond, Trademark Problems and How to Avoid Them, pp.188–95.
18 Sterling and Kittross, Stay Tuned, p. 71.
19 Catleman and Podrazik, Watching TV, p. 70.
20 New York Times magazine, 30 September; 1990, p. 76.
21 Schrank, Snap, Crackle, and Popular Taste, p. 101.
22 Lutz, Doublespeak, p. 82.
23 Ibid., pp. 16–17.
24 Hendon, Classic Failures in Product Marketing, p. 169.
25 Ibid., p. 168.
15: The Movies
1 Flexner, Listening to America, pp. 374–5.
2 Cook, A History of Narrative Film, p. 7.
3 Jowett, Film, p. 27.
4 Cook, op. cit., pp. 10–11.
5 Flexner, op. cit., p. 378.
6 Cook, op. cit., p. 12.
7 Ibid., p. 24.
8 Rybczynski, Waiting for the Weekend, p. 137.
9 Mencken, The American Language, 4th edn., p. 738.
10 Flexner, op. cit., pp. 382–3.
11 P. Smith, A People’s History of the United States, vol. 7, p. 880.
12 American Heritage, December 1983, p. 24; and New Republic,