"Bernays' honest and practical manual provides much insight into
some of the most powerful and influential institutions of
contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies."--Noam
Chomsky
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized
habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in
democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of
society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling
power of our country."--Edward Bernays, "Propaganda"
A seminal and controversial figure in the history of political
thought and public relations, Edward Bernays (1891-1995), pioneered
the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public
opinion, which he famously dubbed "engineering of consent." During
World War I, he was an integral part of the U.S. Committee on
Public Information (CPI), a powerful propaganda apparatus that was
mobilized to package, advertise and sell the war to the American
people as one that would "Make the World Safe for Democracy." The
CPI would become the blueprint in which marketing strategies for
future wars would be based upon.
Bernays applied the techniques he had learned in the CPI and,
incorporating some of the ideas of Walter Lipmann, became an
outspoken proponent of propaganda as a tool for democratic and
corporate manipulation of the population. His 1928 bombshell
"Propaganda" lays out his eerily prescient vision for using
propaganda to regiment the collective mind in a variety of areas,
including government, politics, art, science and education. To read
this book today is to frightfully comprehend what our contemporary
institutions of government and business have become in regards to
organized manipulation of the masses.
This is the first reprint of "Propaganda" in over 30 years and
features an introduction by Mark Crispin Miller, author of "The
Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder."
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