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Maggie Gram, "The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History" (Basic Books, 2025)

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Function, Industry, and Politics

Chris contrasts Walter Teague and Herbert Simon; Maggie explains how industrial design and function intersected with New Deal-era politics and libertarian impulses.

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