Jackson Lears, Author Basic Books $23 (512p) ISBN 978-0-465-09075-4
History professor Lears's study of the rise of American consumerism explores the repressive aspects of advertising's equating of material abundance with social status. (Nov.)
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Jackson Lears, Author, T. J. Jackson Lears, Author . Viking $27.95 (392p) ISBN 978-0-670-03173-3
Public moralists cannot abide the obsessive gambler. They bemoan the disintegration of a solid work ethic and condemn the search for the quick buck, the belief that it's possible to get something for nothing. But Lears, a historian at Rutgers...
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Jackson Lears, Author, T. J. Jackson Lears, Author Basic Books $30 (512p) ISBN 978-0-465-09076-1
In this imposing, highly illuminating study, Rutgers history professor Lears (The Culture of Consumption) examines not just the rise of modern advertising but also the transformations of American culture that precipitated it and the influence of...
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Jackson Lears. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $32 (464p) ISBN 978-0-374-29022-1
Historian Lears (Rebirth of a Nation) attempts to explain in this sprawling study “how animistic thinking survived in the modern Anglo-American world.” Characterizing animal spirits as both “a loosely defined outlook acknowledging the centrality of...
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