The Father of Spin
Edward L. Bernays and The Birth of Public Relations
By Larry Tye
(Picador, Paperback, 9780805067897, 320pp.)
Publication Date: September 2002
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover
Categories: Business, Corporate & Business History - General, Public Relations
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The Father of Spin is the first full-length biography of the legendary Edward L. Bernays, who, beginning in the 1920s, was one of the first and most successful practioners of the art of public relations. In this engrossing biography, Larry Tye uses Bernays's life as a prism to understand the evolution of the craft of public relations and how it came to play such a critical-and sometimes insidious-role in American life.
Drawing on interviews with primary sources and voluminous private papers, Tye presents a fascinating and revealing portrait of the man who, more than any other, defined and personified public relations, a profession that today helps shape our political discourse and define our commercial choices.
Larry Tye was a long-time journalist for The Boston Globe, where he won numerous awards for his work. He has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and is the author of Home Lands.
"[Mr. Tye] succeeds wonderfully in illustrating the often creepy power of our opinion makers."--The New York Times
"A remarkable look at the spinmeister who helped to invent
public relations . . . candid and enlightening."--Kirkus Reviews
"The Father of Spin . . . raises important issues about the presentation of information to the American public by the media . . . that affect us more than we realize."--The Boston Sunday Globe
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