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The mid-twentieth-century marketing world influenced nearly every aspect of American culturemusic, literature, politics, economics, consumerism, race relations, gender, and more. In Engineered to Sell, Jan L. Logemann traces the transnational careers of consumer engineers in advertising, market research, and commercial design who transformed capitalism from the 1930s through the 1960s. He argues that the history of marketing consumer goods is not a story of American exceptionalism. Instead, the careers of immigrants point to the limits of the Americanization paradigm. Logemann explains the rise of a dynamic world of goods and examines how and why consumer engineering was shaped by transatlantic exchanges. From Austrian psychologists and little-known social scientists to the illustrious Bauhaus artists, the emigrs at the center of this story illustrate the vibrant cultural and commercial connections between metropolitan centers: Vienna and New York Paris and Chicago Berlin and San Francisco. By focusing on the transnational lives of emigr consumer researchers, marketers, and designers, Read more