From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor: Front-Line Dispatches from the Advertising War (Audiobook)

from MiaCulpa

I read this some years after its release and some years before "Mad Men" so it was interesting to read "From those wonderful folks ..." as both a time capsule of attitudes in advertising and (unwittingly, of course) a preview of what "Mad Men" would get up to. This is the type of book where the a...

from gaskella

This book was originally published in 1970 - an insider's guide to the goings on in the New York ad industry in the 1960s by a guy who was there - one of the original 'Mad Men' of Madison Avenue. Thanks to the success of the wonderful series (which in my humble opinion is the best thing on TV at ...

from bensdad00

One of the most casually, arrogantly, conceitedly, obnoxious books I've ever read. The authors disdain and contempt for all things not in and of New York City is elitist, paternalistic, and borderline racist. Ogilvy he is not. This is a businessman's "Ball Four" minus the popular characters and e...

from nadineeg

Secrets of advertising revealed and confirmed. The author's note states: "To protect the innocent and guilty alike, a few pseudonyms have been used in the book, but 99 44/100% of the names, agencies and situations described are real."

from nadineeg

Secrets of advertising revealed and confirmed. The author's note states: "To protect the innocent and guilty alike, a few pseudonyms have been used in the book, but 99 44/100% of the names, agencies and situations described are real."