Endnote 164 — Hal's account of Lace-Forché and Veals is oversimplified

A corrective to Hal's youthful summary: the two ad men are actually "transcendent geniuses" (p. 1031) of a right-time-and-place kind, whose pitch to an American ideology built on "the appearance of freedom" (p. 1031) is nearly impossible to analyze away.