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Author Fletcher, Winston.

Title Powers of persuasion : the inside story of British advertising : 1951-2000 / Winston Fletcher
Published Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Contents 1951 : watershed year -- Antecedents : look back in wonder -- The nineteen fifties : the television upheaval -- The nineteen sixties : 'you've never had it so good' -- The nineteen seventies : Britain takes the lead -- The nineteen eighties : Brits buy up the business -- The nineteen nineties : recession and globalization -- Crystal balling : peering into a cloudy future
Summary During much of the second half of the 20th century advertising in Britain led the world. Powers of Persuasion tells the story of this dynamic, exhilarating era, with pen portraits of the personalities involved, anecdotes, and case histories - written from the inside by one of the industry's leaders and best-known commentators. - ;During much of the second half of the 20th century advertising in Britain led the world. Yet no history of British advertising covering this heady period has previously been published. During those years advertising increasingly came to touch upon almost every aspect
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Advertising -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Advertising & Promotion.
Advertising
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0199228019
9780199228010
9780191551727
0191551724
1282053167
9781282053168