Frederik Pohl passes

Sci-fi great Frederk Pohl passed away on Monday, at the age of 93. 
While none of the sales lessons in The Handbook were derived directly from Pohl's work, he is mentioned in Lesson #20, which discusses the cover art of Darrell K. Sweet and Boris Vallejo, among others.  I noted that these artists had work that appeared on the covers of a number of science fiction books, and Pohl appears in the list of works for both Sweet and Vallejo. 

Given that I'm reading my sci-fi and fantasy these days with sales lessons in mind, I guess I should go back and read Pohl's The Space Merchants, his 1953 book written with Cyril Kornbluth.  But I'm afraid that biggest lesson there might be a reminder that to many people, sales folk are nothing more than evil and manipulative.  I'll post when I do re-read it (it's been a looong time), but if anyone reads or has recently read it and has a different lesson that they get from it, please comment or e-mail me about it.

Here's the link to the NY Times obit on Pohl.  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/books/frederik-pohl-worldly-wise-master-of-science-fiction-dies-at-93.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0