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Look : How a Highly Influential Magazine Helped Define Mid-Twentieth-Century America
Author
Title
Look : How a Highly Influential Magazine Helped Define Mid-Twentieth-Century America / Andrew L. Yarrow.
ISBN
9781640125117
9781612349442
Publication
Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource (408 pages).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
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.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Look magazine.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Periodicals.
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