Horowitz, Daniel, 1938-....

Daniel Horowitz is a professor in the American Studies Program at Smith College.

Historian and biographer Daniel Horowitz was born in 1938, studied history at Yale College (B.A, 1960) and Harvard (Ph.D., 1967) before teaching history at Skidmore College (1970-1972) and Scripps College (1972-1986). He then headed the Department of American Studies at Smith College (1989). His publications include: The Morality of Spending: Attitudes toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875-1940, 1985; Vance Packard and American Social Criticism, 1994; (ed. and intro.) American Social Classes in the 1950s: Selections from Vance Packard's The Status Seekers, 1995; Betty Friedan and the Making of "The Feminine Mystique": The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism, 1998; Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979, 2004.