Author : Barry Shank
Release : 2004
Genre : Business etiquette
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 781/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Token of My Affection by : Barry Shank
Download or read book A Token of My Affection written by Barry Shank. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 150 years, greeting cards have tapped into and organized a shared language of love, affection, and kinship, becoming an integral part of American life and culture. Sumptuously illustrated, "A Token of My Affection" follows the evolution of the modern greeting card industry from a traditional printing and stationery business in the mid-nineteenth century to the multibillion-dollar industry it is today. Blending archival research in business history with a study of surviving artifacts and a literary analysis of a range of relevant texts and primary sources, Barry Shank demonstrates how greeting cards have affected and defined experiences of status, longing, desire, social connectedness, and love. Fascinating and surprising, "A Token of My Affection" shows what an industry devoted to emotional sincerity means for the lives of all Americans.
