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Big Life in Advertising
by Mary Wells Lawrence
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Diane Pub Co (2002-01-30)
ISBN: 0756787831
EAN: 9780756787837
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 307 pages
SKU: 49026
Condition: Collectable Like New
Comments: WITH A NICE DUST JACKET. 1ST EDITION. 2002, KNOPF. EARLY PRINT. HARDBACK BOOK, DUST JACKET AND PAGES ARE IN WONDERFUL CONDITION. SHIPS IMMEDIATELY. SHIPPED BY PRIORITY AIR MAIL TO AN ADDRESS THAT IS OVERSEAS. WV-PR
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Product Description
One of advertising's all-time greats, Mary Wells Lawrence, shows us the American ad world from the 1950s through the 1980s in all its brilliance, excitement, fun & craziness. She describes being a young copywriter in the 1960s at Doyle Dane Bernbach, working on campaigns for Avis, VW, & Polaroid. Wells also worked on campaigns for Alka-Seltzer, Braniff Airways, the French tourist bureau, & Betty Crocker. She started Wells Rich Greene & ran it like a movie studio. She created a new line of cosmetics known as Love, helped save Amer. Motors from bankruptcy, created the Ford slogan ''Quality is Job One,'' & created the slogan ''I Love New York.'' She became the first woman CEO of a co. on the N.Y. Stock Exchange. She tells why she decided to sell her co. Ill.
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Amazon.com Review
A colorful mix of historical narrative, revealing personal memoir, and sassy industry tell-all, A Big Life in Advertising offers up Mary Wells Lawrence's bubbling take on life, love, and plugging products. Well, spills it into your lap, actually. Spanning four decades in the world of advertising and the life of one of its star players, A Big Life oozes with juicy details and insider revelations. After an inspiring stint as one of the infamous Bill Bernbach's protégés, Lawrence really began her career at Jack Tinker & Partners, revolutionizing the images of such brands as Alka-Seltzer and Braniff Airways. But when denied the title of president, Lawrence "let loose the bear," as she puts it, and with the creative team of Stewart Greene and Dick Rich, set up shop as Wells Rich Greene. Over the course of the next quarter century, Lawrence and her cast of characters "made theatre out of the advertising business," giving brands like Benson & Hedges, American Motors, TWA, Midas, and Procter & Gamble's Gleem toothpaste their turn on the stage of stardom. While Lawrence's story is less about her agency's creative work and more about her impressions of and interactions with virtually everyone who was anyone in the advertising world of the '70s and '80s, she does include glimpses into her own childhood, life as a mother, and battles with cancer, adding a touch of reality to an otherwise glittering world. Some readers may feel Lawrence's opinion of her own beauty and charm plays too prominent a role in her reminiscing, but she was, after all, an adventurous queen bee in a glamorous world. Her chatty style of writing, and her ebullient enthusiasm for all she has experienced and accomplished, make this book read more like a novel than a memoir. It's an entertaining, fast-paced tale of a big star's big life. --S. Ketchum
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