Roger Draper | The New York Review of Books

Unfriendly Persuasion

November 6, 1986 issue

The Faithless Shepherd

The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators

by Stephen Fox

Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920–1940

by Roland Marchand

Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion: Its Dubious Impact on American Society

by Michael Schudson

Social Communication in Advertising: Persons, Products, and Images of Well-Being

by William Leiss and Stephen Kline and Sut Jhally

The Language of Advertising

by Torben Vestergaard and Kim Schroder

Ogilvy on Advertising

by David Ogilvy

The Trouble with Advertising

by John O'Toole

Adventures of an Advertising Woman

by Jane Maas

See all reviewed works

See less

June 26, 1986 issue

Letter

Dexter Masters

Unfriendly Persuasion

November 6, 1986 issue

Letter

Roger Dickinson

Unfriendly Persuasion

November 6, 1986 issue

Robots & Workers

January 16, 1986 issue

The Golden Arm

“If we pretend that this transformation will automatically create new jobs for the men and women it displaces, we will probably end up with a vastly expanded underclass, not a vastly expanded pool of computer programmers.”

Robotics

edited by Marvin Minsky

Work Transformed: Automation and Labor in the Computer Age

by Harley Shaiken

The Robotics Revolution: The Complete Guide for Managers and Engineers

by Peter B. Scott

Robots: Machines in Man's Image

by Isaac Asimov and Karen A. Frenkel

Smart Robots: A Handbook of Intelligent Robotic Systems

by V. Daniel Hunt

See all reviewed works

See less

October 24, 1985 issue

Letter

David Slawson

Robots & Workers

January 16, 1986 issue