Title:
Look : how a highly influential magazine helped define mid-twentieth-century America / Andrew L. Yarrow.
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9781612349442
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Publication Information:
Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Physical Description:
xx, 313 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. A Forgotten, Misunderstood Magazine That Helped Define America's Golden Era -- 2. In the Beginning -- 3. Look's Thirty-Five Years in Mid-Twentieth-Century America -- 4. The People Who Made Look -- 5. Singing the Praises of Postwar Prosperity -- 6. Anything Is Possible -- 7. Look's Pioneering Role in Covering Civil Rights -- 8. Changing Families, Changing Roles -- 9. Changing Ideas about Women and Men -- 10. Baby Boomers -- 11. When Government and Politicians Were Respected -- 12. Look's "One World" Internationalism -- 13. Covers, Special Features, and Popular Culture -- 14. The End of Look, the Postwar Consensus, and America's Golden Age -- Notes -- Index.
Summary:
"Andrew L. Yarrow tells the story of Look magazine, one of the greatest mass-circulation publications in American history, and the very different United States in which it existed"-- Provided by publisher.
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OCLC Number:
on1240414124
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