Public Humanities talk: Daniel Horowitz: “The Oak Street (Dis)connector: African America, Yale, and New Haven, 1956-60”

Event time: 
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - 9:00pm
Location: 
New Haven Free Public Library See map
Event description: 

Public Humanities at Yale presents: Daniel Horowitz, Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of American Studies, Smith College Emeritus, is a historian whose work focuses on the history of consumer culture and social criticism in the United States during the 20th century. 

His publications include The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875-1940 (1985), selected by Choice as one of the outstanding academic books of 1985; Vance Packard and American Social Criticism(1994); Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, The Cold War, Modern Feminism (1998); The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979 (2004), selected by Choice as one of the outstanding books of 2004 and winner of the Eugene M. Kayden Prize for the best book published in the humanities in 2004 by a university press; Consuming Pleasures: How American and European Intellectuals Came to Embrace Consumer Culture, 1951-2000.  University of Massachusetts will publish his next book, On the Cusp: The Yale College Class of 1960 and a World on the Verge of Change.