Fads, Follies and Delusions of the American People: A Pictorial Story of Madnesses, Crazes and Crowd Phenomena (1967)

A large book with a short chapter titled “007: Licensed to Kill (and sell)” (Chapter 6). A selection of quotes criticising and defending James Bond and the Bond phenomenon are of particular interest, including some that do not appear to have been reprinted elsewhere. The criticism is extracted from a variety of newspaper editorials (including the East German Communist youth paper Junge Welt, the Romanian foreign affairs weekly Lumea, and the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano), while defense is offered by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith (who served as President John F. Kennedy's ambassador to India).

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