The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaign
by Randall Rothenberg
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Business, and Nonfiction.
"For all the right reasons." "Cars that can." "What to Drive." "The perfect Car for an Imperfect World." Only one of these slogans would be chosen by Subaru of America to sell its cars in the recession year of 1991.As six advertising agencies scrambled for the account and the winner tried to churn out the Big Idea that would install Subaru in the c...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Business, and Nonfiction.
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Michael Bierut
“Q: What’s your favorite book on building a brand that ages well #askJF @TanWithMedia A”
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“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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