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Kotex, Kleenex, Huggies: Kimberly-Clark and the Consumer Revolution in American Business. By Thomas Heinrich and Bob Batchelor. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2004. xiv, 263 pp. $48.95, ISBN 0-8142-0976-9.)
Kimberly-Clark shares an intimate acquaintance with the commodification of everyday life in America. The company's influence is as ubiquitous as Kleenex. This well-written monograph tracks the complex history of the business as it grew from a manufacturer of newsprint and paper products in the late nineteenth century to a preeminent purveyor of consumer nondurable goods in the twentieth century. . . .
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