American Social Classes in the 1950s: Selections from Vance Packard's The Status Seekers (Bedford Series in History & Culture)
Daniel Horowitzis professor of American studies and history at Smith College. His scholarly work focuses on the cultural, social, and intellectual history of the United States. He is the author ofThe Morality of Spending: Attitudes toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875-1940, which was selected byChoice Magazineas one of the outstanding academic books of 1984. His most recent book,Vance Packard and American Social Criticism(1994), examines the life and impact of one of the nation's most widely read nonfiction writers of the postwar period.