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Salvos from The Baffler : [the Business of Culture in the New Gilded Age]
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Thomas C. Frank, Matt Weiland
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W W NORTON & Company, 1997 - Business & Economics - 287 pages
The 1980s and 1990s have seen an enormous increase in the power of business over the American mind. Not since the Gilded Age have the robber barons of business accumulated more wealth or won more popular attention. But where the tycoons of yore built railroads or banks, today culture stands at the heart of American enterprise and mass entertainment has become its economic dynamo. For a decade The Baffler magazine has been an invigorating voice of dissent against these developments, in the tradition of the muckrakers and H. L. Mencken's The American Mercury. Commodity Your Dissent gathers together the best of its excoriating criticism of the new American cultural order, exploring such peculiar developments as the birth of the rebel consumer as hero in the pages of Wired and Details; the dramatic rise of "alternative" culture in the post-Nirvana era; the appearance of new business gurus like Tom Peters and corporate fads like "reengineering"; the ever-accelerating race to market youth culture; and the encroachment of advertising and commercial enterprise into every last nook and cranny of American life.

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perfect? nah. but it's a wonderful and much-needed aggregation of New Left polemic from the early and mid 1990s. Read full review

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About the author (1997)

Thomas Frank is the author of Pity the Billionaire, The Wrecking Crew, What's the Matter with Kansas, One Market Under God and others. Frank is a former opinion columnist for The Wall Street Journal and is the founding editor of The Baffler and a monthly columnist for Harper's.

Matt Weiland is the Deputy Editor of The Paris Review. He has been an editor at Granta, The Baffler and The New Press, and he oversaw a documentary radio unit at NPR. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, New York Observer, The Nation and The New Republic. He is the co-editor, with Sean Wilsey, of The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup and, with Thomas Frank, of Commodify Your Dissent: The Business of Culture in the New Gilded Age. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

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TitleCommodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler : [the Business of Culture in the New Gilded Age]
EditorsThomas C. Frank, Matt Weiland
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherW W NORTON & Company, 1997
ISBN0393316734, 9780393316735
Length287 pages
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Business & Economics / Corporate & Business History
History / United States / 20th Century
Social Science / Popular Culture
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