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Gary S. Cross



Gary S. Cross is distinguished professor of modern history at Pennsylvania State University.

Average rating: 3.44 · 347 ratings · 49 reviews · 25 distinct worksSimilar authors
An All-Consuming Century: W...

3.68 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions
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Men to Boys: The Making of ...

2.80 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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Packaged Pleasures: How Tec...

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3.61 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions
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Technology and American Soc...

3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions
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Consumed Nostalgia: Memory ...

3.18 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions
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Free Time: The History of a...

3.54 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions
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Kids' Stuff: Toys and the C...

3.41 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions
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The Cute and the Cool: Wond...

3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions
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A Social History of Leisure...

3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions
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The Playful Crowd: Pleasure...

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“Even business leaders embraced President Johnson’s Great Society social programs as the price for affluence. Government spending oiled a well-constructed economic machine — making it work better by adjusting consumer demand when needed and by bringing the poor into the system through education and a helping hand.”
Gary S. Cross, An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America



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