"Success by Imitation"
Magazine article
By: Alan Harrington
Date: July 1959
Source: Harrington, Alan. "Success by Imitation." The Atlantic Monthly 201, no, 1, July 1959, 37–39.
About the Author: Alan Harrington (1919–1997), a novelist, satirist, and journalist, enjoyed exposing the pretensions of the rich and powerful. A frequent critic of the conformity present in the corporate ethos of the 1950s, Harrington often unleashed his irreverent brand of humor against social convention that he found dysfunctional.
Introduction
In the years following the Great Depression (1930–1939), American businesses rebounded, and many Americans looked to these companies as a source of dependable work in the 1940s and '50s. Yet the anxiety of the Depression years—a fear of joblessness and economic chaos—had not dissipated. It was perhaps this anxiety that led the average "company man" to...
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