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Lectures in History

Dwight Eisenhower and 1950s Political Advertising

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Purdue University professor Kathryn Brownell teaches a class about political advertising in the 1950s, highlighting Dwight Eisenhower's presidential campaigns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Next on lectures in history, Purdue University professor Catherine Brownell teaches a class about political advertising in the 1950s,

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highlighting Dwight Eisenhower's presidential campaigns.

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She compares radio and early televised ads and examines what components made them successful.

1:13.2

Her class is about an hour and ten minutes.

1:18.1

Nothing perhaps captures the popular memory of the 1950s, like the slogan, I like Ike.

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This idea, this pin that so many people wore around the campaign of 1952 and 1956,

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conveys a notion of nostalgia and simplicity.

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It really emphasizes this idea of the 1950s as this era of prosperity, where

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America was a world leader, and the American people were happy in suburban homes with their

1:55.4

nuclear families. I like Ike. It's so simple, and it conveys that happiness.

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This idea, however, is a myth, and it's a political construction.

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The 1950s, in fact, was a time wrought with racial discrimination,

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conflict, intense political, and social pressures to conform to a suburban ideal that imposed gender hierarchies, and mandated heterosexuality in the law.

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It was a time in which anti-communism targeted the liberal reform impulses of the New Deal,

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