The King of Madison Avenue
A podcast with Kenneth Roman.
The Big Money presents "Every Day I Read the Book," featuring Daniel Gross. Dan's guest today is Kenneth Roman, author of the new book The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the Making of Modern Advertising. Ken discusses this singular story of an immigrant waiter who became the most influential advertising executive of all time.
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Daniel Gross is the Moneybox columnist for Slate and the business columnist for Newsweek. You can e-mail him at moneybox@slate.com and follow him on Twitter. His latest book, Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation, has just been published in paperback.