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Augspurger, Michael. "An Economy of Abundant Beauty: Fortune and the Culture of Corporate Liberalism," American Studies, University of Iowa, January 2001.
In the nineteen thirties and forties, Fortune complemented its business focus with a strong interest in literary writing and visual art. But while many critics have seen its conspicuous display of “Culture” as merely an ornamented parlor hiding the dusky backrooms of business, Fortune’s modernism was in fact integral to its larger corporate liberal vision of an American “new era.“ Fortune’s cultural discourse particularly reveals corporate liberals’ assumptions about the social responsibilities of business and the role of the professional managerial class. The responses of three prominent staff members-Archibald MacLeish, James Agee, and Dwight Macdonald-to the magazine’s cultural ideals further expose the political and social basis of those ideals. The conflicts amongst Fortune and its writers exhibit in microcosm a larger struggle to redefine the social role of artists, intellectuals, and indeed, the entire professional managerial class.
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