This book is a fantastic read, and is to my mind at least, the best book that Stephen Brown has written to date. In this book, he takes five world renowned marketing writers (Philip Kotler, Ted Levitt, Shelby Hunt, Wroe Alderson, Morris Holbrook) and develops an analysis of the writing styles of these authors. He also uses a variety of different interpretative frameworks to do this, such as Marxism, Literary Criticism, Subjective Personal Introspection and Postmodernism, all of which help to shed light on the literary styles of the marketing greats.
This book is highly educational, as it provides the reader with a complete overview of the works of these famous authors, and a highly engaging academic analysis of their writing styles. Brown also provides a chapter at the end of the book on the art (yes, art!) of good writing in marketing, and some tips which are useful to both seasoned academics and student beginners.
Overall, I think "Writing Marketing" is a must read for every student of marketing, undergraduate or postgraduate, assistant professor or Department Dean, as it is a lively and quite brilliant analysis of the best writers in the field of marketing, and one of the few texts that adequately addresses the subject of writing in the marketing discipline.