105 introduction of American fast food outlets and climbing obesity rates
Jeannine Stein, "Wealthy Nations with a Lot of Fast Food: Destined to Be Obese?," Los Angeles Times, December 22, 2011.
106 Consequently, food prices went down significantly
Charles Kenny, "The Global Obesity Bomb," BloombergBusinessweek, June 4, 2012.
107 precisely with the large average weight gains and increased obesity
Dreifus, "A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity."
108 skimpily clad sex symbol washing a car
Eric Noe, "How Well Does Paris Sell Burgers?," ABC News, June 29, 2005, http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=893867&page=1#.UGMPQI40jdk.
109 equivalent of adding an extra one billion people
Matt McGrath, "Global Weight Gain More Damaging Than Rising Numbers," BBC, June 20, 2012.
110 first national circulation magazines and the first silent films
Johannes Malkmes, American Consumer Culture and Its Society: From F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1920s Modernism to Bret Easton Ellis' 1980s Blank Fiction (Hamburg: Diplomica, 2011), p. 44.
111 new products like automobiles and radios
Jeremy Rifkin, The End of Work (New York: Putnam, 1995), p. 22.
112 70 percent of U.S. homes by the end of the 1920s
Stephen Moore and Julian L. Simon, "The Greatest Century That Ever Was: 25 Miraculous Trends of the Past 100 Years," Cato Policy Analysis No. 364, Cato Institute, December 15, 1999, http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa364.pdf, p. 20.
113 manufacturers and merchants in the emerging science of mass marketing
Rifkin, The End of Work, pp. 2022.
114 industry entered a new and distinctly different role
Daniel Pope, "Making Sense of Advertisements," History Matters: The U.S. Survey on the Web, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/ads/ads.pdf.
115 many of the other most prominent intellectuals in America
Russell Jacoby, "Freud's Visit to Clark U," Chronicle of Higher Education, September 2009.
116 American Psychoanalytic Society was founded two years after Freud's visit
Leon Hoffman, "Freud's Adirondack Vacation," New York Times, August 29, 2009.
117 Committee on Public Information
Woodrow Wilson: Executive Order 2594-Creating Committee on Public Information, April 13, 1917, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=75409.
118 set out to introduce the techniques into mass marketing
Institute for Studies in Happiness, Economy, and Society, Alternatives and Complements to GDP-Measured Growth as a Framing Concept for Social Progress, 2012.
119 in order to avoid using the word "propaganda"
I explain the history of the word "propaganda"-and its meaning in the United States-in a previous book. See The Assault on Reason (New York: Penguin Press, 2007), pp. 9396.
120 by Germany to describe its mass communications strategy
Sam Pocker, Retail Anarchy: A Radical Shopper's Adventures in Consumption (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2009), p. 122.
121 in their subconscious minds that might be relevant