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Packard, Vance (Oakley)
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| Journalist and writer, born in Granville Summit, Pennsylvania, USA. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University (1936) and worked as a reporter and columnist for newspapers and the Associated Press before he became an editor and writer at American magazine (1942–56). He wrote a number of books popularizing social issues, including The Hidden Persuaders (1957), The Naked Society (1964), and The People Shapers (1977). He also taught writing at Columbia and New York Universities. |
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