Consumerism in America had its beginnings as early as the mid-eighteenth century if not earlier. “From the 1750s Chesapeake colonists were inundated with an unprecedented flow of nonessential consumer ...
More, Newer, Better After World War II, consumer spending no longer meant just satisfying an indulgent material desire. In fact, the American consumer was praised as a patriotic citizen in the ...
Koehn, N. F. "Consumerism and Consumption." In The Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Morton Keller. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2000.
One Man and His Shoes tells the story of America’s fascination with fame, consumerism, and of course, Air Jordans. It brings to light the ultimate cost of consumerism versus supply and demand.