-- The Great American Novel that never got written--
-- A young writer’s introduction to big-agency advertising--
-- Ads and commercials and clients and bosses--
-- Hits and misses and triumphs and catastrophies--
-- A lovely young lady who became a supportive wife and mother--
-- Three young sons who kept both parents hopping--
-- Garrets and apartments and dream houses in the suburbs--
-- And an interesting look at America in the ’50’s from a front-row seat in the advertising that helped propel it. How it worked and didn’t work, scored and struck out, rewarded and punished, and just about everything else.