The Great American Blow-Up: Puffery in Advertising and Selling

How does advertising really work? This thoroughly revised edition of Ivan Prestons popular classic, The Great American Blow-Up, provides new examples of puffery and deceit in advertising. Preston examines in detail the role of laws and the Federal Trade Commission in ensuring fair representation of goods and services to consumers. In a new concluding chapter, Preston describes and assesses developments in the field of advertising from the mid1970s to the present. Critical acclaim for the first edition

Ivan L. Preston has created a definitive study sure to be cherished by consumer advocates, but one that should be read by everyone ever influenced by advertising. And that, of course, is every one of us.Chicago Sun-Times Book Week

Anyone interested in or concerned about advertising, especially the regulation of false, misleading or deceptive advertising, will find this treatise valuable. Preston does all that one can do to make an extremely complicated subject as understandable as it can be.Ivan Ross, Journal of Consumer Affairs

This is an important book and should be a must for all serious students and practitioners of advertising. . . . While the book is scholarly, it is also popularist and should find great favor with consumerists.S. Bernard Rosenblatt, Journal of Advertising

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