Ralph Ginzburg, who died last month at age 76, was a publisher, a direct marketer, an author and a photographer. But he will be most remembered for the eight months he served in jail in 1972.
First Amendment absolutists will always hold him in high esteem. But so, we believe, should DMers.
Ginzburg’s first brush with direct marketing came at age 10 in 1939, when he ordered Dale Carnegie’s book,