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INTRODUCTION

Emerson Foote was "The Huckster." During his four decades in advertising, he served as president of two of America's largest advertising agencies, Foote, Cone and Belding and McCann-Erickson. One of his largest accounts was the American Tobacco Company. Many thought that Ferderic Wakeman's novel, and later the movie, the Huckster, was about Foote and his work with that account