Looking at Life magazine

Focuses on how Life magazine, in its editorial and especially its pictorial style, played a leading role in shaping American national identity from the Great Depression through the Vietnam War. The thirteen contributors discuss how and why Life became so popular, what political and social views it reflected and projected, how the editors tried to create an image of a unified and classless nation, and why that vision and the magazine itself ultimately failed.

This book can be found in ICP Library