Outdated Advertising: Sexist, Racist, Creepy, and Just Plain Tasteless Ads from a Pre-PC Era, Paperback

This outrageous collection of inappropriate ads will have you turning the pages and shaking your head in disbelief.

Outdated Advertising: Memories from a Less-than-PC Era takes a look at print advertising from the mid-1850s through the 1980s with an eye toward ads that were notorious for their sexist, racist, politically-incorrect, or other wildly inappropriate content--or for just plain bad taste. Among the dozens of full-color examples, readers will find:

a woman being spanked by her husband for not buying the right coffee

the story of a mother having to turn her child over to an orphanage because her late husband didn't keep up his life insurance payments

Aunt Jemima declaring ``Happy days is here `` because of her new pancake recipe

doctors promoting particular brands of cigarettes

the Michael Jackson Rainbow Brite portable record player with the copy line, ``Gifts to keep children singing.``

Advertising has changed over the decades--that is a major understatement. Despite the nostalgia of such shows as Mad Men, the outrageous images in Outdated Advertising show readers just how far we've come since then.