An economy of abundant beauty

"Michael Augspurger's illustrated book examines Fortune's surprising role in American struggles over artistic and cultural authority during the Depression and the Second World War. The elegantly designed magazine, launched in the first months of the Depression, was not narrowly concerned with money-making and finance. Indeed the magazine displayed a remarkable interest in art, national culture, and the "literature of business."" "But even as the "enlightened" business ideology of Fortune grew into the economic common sense of the 1950s, the author maintains, the magazine's cultural ideals struggled with and eventually succumbed to the professional criticism of the postwar era."--BOOK JACKET.