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Where the Suckers Moon

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Where the Suckers Moon
Full titleWhere the Suckers Moon: An Advertising Story
AuthorRandall Rothenberg
Published1994
Pages487
RecommendedOnce
BuyAmazon
Why it’s on the listOne account — Subaru’s — followed from pitch to campaign to firing, as a way of showing what an advertising agency actually does and why the relationship almost always ends badly.

Where I heard about it

  • A reply to @WillManidis — named in answer to his question “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” in a thread on X, June 2025.

Connections

  • what is the single best book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
  • Advertising · Marketing · Journalism — where this sits in the corpus.
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