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The Stock Market Crash of 1929 – Part 2: Age of Illusion

Conflicted: A History Podcast

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A New Tool of Mass Communication, Advertising

In the 19 twenties Americans took marketing at face value. Advertising was education. Copy was fact. Mascots were trusted friends. And that gullability, as fleeting as it was, was exploited to the max by madison avenue copywriters and the wall street bankers thatn acted their services. It was a new golden age where advertising first became an art form unto itself. The average person consumes so much advertising in a single day that we are all marketing connoisseurs without even realizing it.

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