Advertising for the space AgeトZoom back in time to the 50s and 60s! Gleaned from literally thousands of images, Mid-Century Ads ($40) offers the very best of American’s print advertising from the age known as the ‘Big Idea’. At the very height of American consumerism every magazine was flooded with clever and innovative campaigns that were aimed at selling everything from guns to girdles. These are visual indicators of how the spirit of the 1950’s and 1960’s was dominated by colorful capitalism once Cold War concerns gave way to the carefree cigarettes and alcohol era of the Mad Men. This is an incredible book that can be described as an advertising time capsule and through the ads featured the face of America was changed forever.
This book was one an actual top-secret training guide for those CIA agents out in the field during the early Cold War years back in the 50’s. Now, The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception is available to us all, and what a read it is. Not only an awesome historical artifact, this handbook […]