Changing the World Is the Only Fit Work for a Grown Man (Paperback)


This is the story of a 'sixties adman who harnessed the big ideas of his age and set out to reinvent advertising - and then change the world. In so doing he introduced interactive, PR-generating stunts, and social media - way back in the 1960s. Then he used them to save the Grand Canyon, kick-start the Green Movement, free a Caribbean island and launch Wired magazine's 'patron saint', Marshall McLuhan. And he did it all with a flamboyance that inspired the likes of Tom Wolfe, John Steinbeck and the makers of the counterculture. His name was Howard Luck Gossage. These are his life and times.

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This is the story of a 'sixties adman who harnessed the big ideas of his age and set out to reinvent advertising - and then change the world. In so doing he introduced interactive, PR-generating stunts, and social media - way back in the 1960s. Then he used them to save the Grand Canyon, kick-start the Green Movement, free a Caribbean island and launch Wired magazine's 'patron saint', Marshall McLuhan. And he did it all with a flamboyance that inspired the likes of Tom Wolfe, John Steinbeck and the makers of the counterculture. His name was Howard Luck Gossage. These are his life and times.

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Imprint

Adworld Press

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Release date

February 2012

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Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

First published

February 2012

Authors

Dimensions

229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback - Trade

Pages

208

ISBN-13

978-0-9571515-0-5

Barcode

9780957151505

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LSN

0-9571515-0-0



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