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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786361503321

Autore

Stole Inger L

Titolo

Advertising at war [[electronic resource] ] : business, consumers, and government in the 1940s / / Inger L. Stole

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-71261-X

0-252-09423-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Collana

The history of communication

Disciplina

940.54/88973

Soggetti

Advertising - United States - History - 20th century

World War, 1939-1945 - United States - Propaganda

Corporations - Public relations - United States - History - 20th century

United States History 1933-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

'Advertising at War' challenges the notion that advertising disappeared as a political issue in the United States in 1938 with the passage of the Wheeler-Lea Amendment to the Federal Trade Commission Act, the result of more than a decade of campaigning to regulate the advertising industry. Inger L. Stole suggests that the war experience, even more than the legislative battles of the 1930's, defined the role of advertising in U.S. postwar political economy and the nation's cultural firmament.