num_pages: 512
description: Fables of Abundance ranges from the traveling peddlers of early modern Europe to the twentieth-century American corporation, exploring the ways that advertising collaborated with other cultural institutions to produce the dominant aspirations and anxieties in the modern United States.
language: English
title: Fables Of Abundance: A Cultural History Of Advertising In America
titlecomplete: Fables Of Abundance: A Cultural History Of Advertising In America
genres: Nonfiction, History, American History, Grad School
ratings_count: 118
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: History
publisher: Basic Books