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The King of Madison Avenue

Disciplines:
biography
advertising

Summary

Kenneth Roman's biography of David Ogilvy — the most authoritative account of the founder of Ogilvy & Mather and the advertising industry's most influential practitioner.

Core Contribution

David Ogilvy fully documented: Roman (a former Ogilvy executive) provides the insider biography that Ogilvy's own books (Confessions of an Advertising Man, Ogilvy on Advertising) left out — the business decisions, the client relationships, the management methods, and the personal contradictions. Essential complement to Ogilvy's own writing for understanding how the advertising industry's most quoted figure actually operated.

Historical Influences

David Ogilvy's papers and legacy

Intellectual Lineage

Advertising Industry HistoryBusiness Biography

Allied Works

Confessions of an Advertising Man

Contemporaries & Peers

Confessions of an Advertising Man Ogilvy on Advertising

Minds Influenced

Advertising History Literature

Intellectual Posterity

Advertising History

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