All-American Ads of the 50s

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The decade that sold America to itself. All-American Ads of the 50s is a plethora of 1950s advertising — a rich, colorful record of just about anything the postwar dollar could buy, from Las Vegas vacations to cigarettes as healthy mood enhancers.

More than a catalog of bygone products and campaigns, the book is a genuinely evocative portrait of everyday American life at a moment when McCarthyism was rife and capitalism was king — the aspirations, contradictions, and cheerful strangeness of a nation in the middle of inventing its modern self, all preserved in glossy full color.

The decade, in full glossy color.

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