Should the energy which activates the ad-men (and the industrial stalks on which they are the passion-flowers) be transferred to the world of political speculation and creation, American could still fulfill many of its broken Utopian promises, because its Jeffersonian tradition is still intact, and likewise its psychological vigor.
“American Advertising”, published In Horizon, No.93-4, October (1947), reprinted in Mass Culture: the Popular Arts in America,(1957), reprinted as McLuhan Unbound #9 (2005), p 18
Year: 1947
Chapters:
Advertising | America, North America
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Compiled by William Kuhns
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