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  Fringe Benefits: The Good, the Bad, the Beautiful...and the O'Briens (Hardback) By (author) Donough O'Brien, Photographs by Patrick Lichfield, Photographs by John D. Green, Foreword by Joanna Lumley

  

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  Short Description for Fringe BenefitsIn this work, Donough O'Brien records his successful career in PR, outlining the achievements of his father during World War II and chronicling the Swinging Sixties in which he came to prominence. The glamorous certainly feature - Joanna Lumley and Jacqueline Bisset to name but a few.
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  • Publisher: Bene Factum Publishing Ltd
  • Published: 05 October 2000
  • Format: Hardback 352 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: Business & Industry | Autobiography: Business & Industry | Public Relations | Media, Information & Communication Industries | Information Technology Industries
  • ISBN 13: 9781903071021 ISBN 10: 190307102X

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• In the opening chapters the author records his father Toby's remarkable career in PR. This began just before World War II with Toby becoming responsible for taking the initiative away from Germany's propoganda machine controlled by the well organized and funded Nazi party. After the war Toby was one of the first political spin-doctors, worked for the Conservative Party and later rose to be the doyen of commercial and international PR in the UK. Later in the book, Donough picks up his own story and this really comes to life when he joins the Irish Guards. He then treats us to four years of amusing military recollections. On leaving, the author started civilian work in a London that is just beginning to come alive - the Swinging Sixties have arrived. Like his father he goes into PR and records a memoir of the most colourful people of the period. The glamorous certainly feature - Joanna Lumley, Jacqueline Bisset and Charlotte Rampling are just some. His involvement in the opening of the trendiest nightclub of the period, Sibylla's, with its guest list of all the greats of rock n' roll is another seminal moment.