With Amusement for All

With Amusement for All
Author: LeRoy Ashby
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 713
Release: 2006-05-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813123976

With Amusement for All contextualizes what Americans have done for fun since 1830, showing the reciprocal nature of the relationships among social, political, economic, and cultural forces and the ways in which the entertainment world has reflected, changed, or reinforced the values of American society.

Comic strips and consumer culture, 1890-1945

Comic strips and consumer culture, 1890-1945
Author: GORDON IAN
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1998-04-17
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Drawing on comic strip characters such as Buster Brown, Winnie Winkle, and Superman, Ian Gordon shows how, in addition to embellishing a wide array of goods with personalities, comic strips themselves increasingly promoted consumerist values and upward mobility.

Profscam

Profscam
Author: Charles J. Sykes
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1988-10-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780895265593

ProfScam reveals the direct and ultimate reason for the collapse of higher education in the Unites States— the selfish, wayward, and corrupt American university professor.