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Outdated Advertising: Sexist, Racist, Creepy, And Just Plain Tasteless Ads From A Pre-pc Era

by Michael Lewis

2021-01-08 03:18:29

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This outrageous collection of inappropriate ads will have you turning the pages and shaking your head in disbelief.Outdated Advertising: Memories from a Less-than-PC Era takes a look at print advertising from the mid-1850s through the 1980s with an e... Read more
This outrageous collection of inappropriate ads will have you turning the pages and shaking your head in disbelief.
Outdated Advertising: Memories from a Less-than-PC Era takes a look at print advertising from the mid-1850s through the 1980s with an eye toward ads that were notorious for their sexist, racist, politically-incorrect, or other wildly inappropriate content—or for just plain bad taste. Among the dozens of full-color examples, readers will find:
  • a woman being spanked by her husband for not buying the right coffee
  • the story of a mother having to turn her child over to an orphanage because her late husband didn’t keep up his life insurance payments
  • Aunt Jemima declaring “Happy days is here!” because of her new pancake recipe
  • doctors promoting particular brands of cigarettes
  • the Michael Jackson Rainbow Brite portable record player with the copy line, “Gifts to keep children singing.”

    • Advertising has changed over the decades—that is a major understatement. Despite the nostalgia of such shows as Mad Men, the outrageous images in Outdated Advertising show readers just how far we’ve come since then. Less

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    File size10 X 8 X 0.5 in
    Print pages168
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Publication date November 21, 2017
    LanguageEnglish
    ISBN9781510723801
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    Michael Lewis
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    Michael Lewis (born October 15, 1960) is an American financial journalist and author of many New York Times bestselling books on various subjects. His most recent work is The Premonition: A Pandemic S...

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