Free The Hucksters Executed By Frederic Wakeman Text

film made some unfortunate compromises dictated by the production code, otherwise, great entertainment, with Gable at his best, which was pretty good, Actually I read this a few years ago but just last night watched the Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Ava Garner movie, Also, just yesterday, I readthree!articles from the New York Times reviewing Dave Eggers' The Circle which I plan to read but have not read yet,

I was drawn to read The Hucksters because of its description of the then maturing profession of advertising, its seeming appearance as source material for the Mad Med television show and the fact it is set in the late's.


Norman is certainly a's version of Don Draper, a little rougher and aggressiveas was the fashion for the heroman of the'sthan Draper who was the ideal heroman of his time.


What really resonated though, were the similarities of the reviews for the Hucksters both book and movie to those for The Circle, ers, in both cases, could not dump on the works for they are not "trash" or "bad"but there was a strong resistance to praise,

Stepping back I could see what might be going on: Both books deal with a contemporary view of a new, developing industry as well as with new, developing work environments.
In The Hucksters' world, employees are being introduced to a world where powerful bosses control by fear, By the time of The Circle sadly we've reached a place where that controlling fear in the workplace is a pervasive standard, Now has been added, the need to give over even more of one's identity to the "boss, "

Possibly, the critical resistance to the two works is based on a conscious, or subconcious, resistance to the worlds each depicts, Perhaps a refusal to accept that the worlds depicted are accuratewhich would be a hard problem to deal with indeedso much easier to attack the books by claiming they present a false depiction of the "real" world.
What an unexpected

pleasure. Ostensibly a humorous satire about the superficial world of advertising but harbouring a chocolatey core filled with the gooey exploration of ego, love, success and dignity 'The Hucksters' follows recentlydischarged in the closing days of the Second World War Vic Norman as he moves from army radio work back into the world of advertising.
He wants success, money, dames and fame, It's very Sex and the City, Given that this was written in, its tone sometimes feels rooted in its time, For most of it, it feels surprisingly present, From poignant aphorisms on the working of advertising that remain true today to the relatively indiscreet love affairs,

It's often laughoutloud funny and, without spoilers, I found it surprisingly touching, Glorious fun. Completely sincere.From sitelinkDon Draper's "Mad Men" Bookshelf, I liked it.
Maybe because he's so sincere, . . "The whole story the movie didn't tell, "
Vic Norman got everything a man could want, . . He got a handpainted tie at, . . and a shiny new job at,, . . he got an apartment on Sutton Place, . . and the respect of the toughest old tyrant who ever sold soap, . . he got Marguerite and Connie and glamorous redheaded Jean. He got everything a man could want, . . but he didn't know what he wanted, Not til he met Kay, cool, blonde, lovely Kay, Then he knew what he wanted but didn't know how to get it!
One of the bestselling novels of, made into a popular Clark Gable film in.
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