Osborne (rhetoric, leadership, and mass communication; Gonzaga U., Spokane) examines how office life has been portrayed in US popular culture through a mix of both mainstream and submerged voices from 19th-century fiction to contemporary film and television. Among his topics are the great American dilemma: conformity or rebellion, print from the Victorian era to the roaring 20s, the office in drama and comedy during the 1950s and 1960s, and common types and office games. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)