Vance Packard Lecture, Concert Lecture Series, 1964

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Vance Packard Lecture, Concert Lecture Series, 1964

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Lecture or Presentation Date:

10-5-1964

Description

Author Vance Packard delivered this public lecture, “What’s Happening to the American Character?” in Pease Auditorium as part of the Eastern Michigan University Concert Lecture Series. Author of several bestselling novels, Packard’s social criticism led him to be published in many well-known American periodicals. In this lecture, Packard discusses the impact on everyday behavior of such pressures as the deliberate encouragement of hedonism, the exploitation of the “youth market,” and the promotion of living on credit, and the preoccupation of status.

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Vance Packard, Eastern Michigan University, Pease Auditorium, hedonism, youth market, debt, credit, lecture series

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Permission to quote from this lecture or presentation should be requested from the University Archives (lib_archives@emich.edu).​

Vance Packard Lecture, Concert Lecture Series, 1964

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