The Bare-Knuckled Truths of Edward Bernays

We may not like the father of modern PR (I don’t) but we must understand him

Mitch Horowitz
10 min readDec 7, 2022

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I am not sure that I personally like Edward Bernays (1891–1995). But I admire his skills as a communicator — and, it must be stated plainly, a manipulator of communication.

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Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China