#title ‘The Naked Society’ Advert
#date March 15, 1964
#source The New York Times, March 15, 1964, page 126.
#lang en
#pubdate 2026-01-06T11:50:54
#topics book advertisement, Ted’s reading interests & influences, privacy, technology,

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**VANCE PACKARD**

tells, in THE NAKED SOCIETY, how

your privacy is being violated

in many ways you don’t even suspect—

by Big Government, Big Business,

and Big Education.

*He also tells what you can do about it.*
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By the man who
<br>roused America with:

**THE HIDDEN PERSUADERS**
<br>#1 National Best Seller, 1957

**THE STATUS SEEKERS**
<br>#1 National Best Seller, 1959

**THE WASTE MAKERS**
<br>#1 National Best Seller, 1960

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All published by
<br>**DAVID McKAY**
<br>**COMPANY, Inc.**
<br>New York

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In this, Vance Packard’s most timely and arresting book, he gives a startling, fully documented view of the hundreds of ways — many of them considered legal —in which your Right of Privacy is being violated. He shows exactly how, unknown to most of us, an army of investigators is probing into our bank accounts, checking our private lives, poking into our business affairs, questioning our children, even in many instances bugging our bedrooms, offices and automobiles. All in all it is a terrifying picture Vance Packard paints of the surveillance to which we are subjected. And more important than the techniques employed by government, industry, and educational administrators is the philosophy that permits these encroachments. Can we regain our vanishing Right of Privacy before it is too late? Vance Packard believes we can. In The Naked Society, he tells how.

At all bookstores $5.95