Susan Strasser

Susan Strasser is the author of Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash and Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Nation. A professor of history at the University of Delaware, she lives near Washington, D.C.


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Susan Strasser; With a New Preface
A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book

Finally back in print, with a new Preface by the author, this lively, authoritative, and pathbreaking study considers the history of material advances and...


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Waste and Want

Susan Strasser
A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book

An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society. Susan Strasser's...


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