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A series of essays by Thomas Frank and Matt Weiland on consumerism, corporations, and marketing in the United States during the 1990s and 2000s. The authors target various aspects of consumer culture, including malls, exurbs, business books, and record labels. They critique the co-opting of grunge and question the rise of the Internet as a commercial force, and the changing nature of work in the age of digitization.
First publish date: 1997
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Editors - Thomas Frank, Matt Weiland
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