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Apr 02, 2019 every friday in the new york post a great sportswriter named jimmy cannon used to write a column that i would devour. Packed full of eccentric characters and interesting anecdotes it is a gloriously gossipy and irreverent account of life on madison avenue in the 1960s. The column consisted of his observations of the passing scene. Jul 17, 2010 in 1970, della femina, the then 34yearold chairman of his own ad agency, wrote one of the defining books about advertising, the cult bestseller from those wonderful folks who gave you pearl harbor. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. This honor was simply confirmation of an already accepted fact within the industryand outside of it.
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Jerry della femina has worked in the advertising industry for over fifty years, and he was an adviser on the first season of the hit television show mad men. Vividly reminiscent of the goingson at sterling cooperthe late nights, the threemartini lunches, the sex on couches, and, of course, the actual work of plugging productsthis is the story of what madison avenue was really like in the 60s. It caused a sensation, became a bestseller and established itself as a cult classic. Della femina is the older of two sons born to michael louis della femina, a pressman for the new york times, and concetta corsaro della femina, a homemaker.
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