Wednesday December 11th, 2013, 10:58 am (EST)  Dear Reader,
The Sales Effort and Monopoly Capital  Robert W. McChesney is
the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of
Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
His most recent book is The Political Economy of Media: Enduring
Issues, Emerging Dilemmas (Monthly Review Press, 2008). John
Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of
sociology at the University of Oregon. He is coauthor, with Fred
Magdoff, of The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
(Monthly Review Press, January 2009) among numerous other works.
Inger L. Stole is associate professor of communication at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of
Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public
Relations in the 1930s (University of Illinois Press, 2006).
Hannah Holleman is a doctoral student at the University of
Oregon.  On the eightieth anniversary of the 1929 Stock Market
Crash that led to the Great Depr