20 ads that shook the world : the century's most groundbreaking advertising and how it changed us all / James Twitchell.

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Main Author: Twitchell, James B., 1943-
Other title:Twenty ads that shook the world
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Crown Publishers, ©2000.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • P.T. Barnum: prince of humbug
  • Lydia E. Pinkham's vegetable compound: personalizing the corporate face
  • Pears' soap: John E. Millais's A child's world and the powers of associated value
  • Pepsodent: Claude Hopkins and the magic of preemptive claim
  • Listerine: Gerard Lambert and selling the need
  • The Queensboro Corporation: advertising on the first electronic medium
  • The kid in upper 4: the birth of advocacy advertising
  • De Beers: a good campaign is forever
  • Coke and Christmas: the Claus that refreshes
  • The Volkswagen Beetle: William Bernbach and the fourth wall
  • Miss Clairol's "does she or doesn't she?": how to advertise a dangerous product
  • The Marlboro man: the perfect campaign
  • The Hathaway man: David Ogilvy and the branding of branding
  • Anacin and the unique selling proposal: how would you like a hammer in the head?
  • LBJ vs. Barry Goldwater: thirty-second politics
  • She's very Charlie: the politics of scent
  • Absolut: the metaphysics of wrap
  • Apple's 1984: the ad as artifact
  • The rise and fall of the infomercial: "call now! operators are standing by ..."
  • Nike and Michael Jordan: the hero as product.