Edward Louis Bernays was an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations". Bernays was named one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century by Life. He was the subject of a full length biography by Larry Tye called The Father of Spin and later an award-winning 2002 documentary for the BBC by Adam Curtis called The Century of the Self
Edward L. Bernays
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American propaganda and marketing pioneer (1891-1995)
Born | November 22,1891 Vienna |
Died | March 9,1995 Cambridge MA |
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Edward L. Bernays
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American propaganda and marketing pioneer (1891-1995)
Born | November 22,1891 Vienna |
Died | March 9,1995 Cambridge MA |
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Public relations, Public opinion, Publicity, Social sciences, Propaganda, Vocational guidance, World War, 1939-1945, American literature, American poetry, Democracy, Depressions, Foreign relations, Industrial relations, Massachusetts, biography, Political science, Social psychology, United States Information Agency, Universities and colleges, Administrative agencies, Advertising, Aging, Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation, American Nurses' Association, American Propaganda, American Psychological AssociationPlaces
United States, New York, New York (State), Foreign countries, India, Lower Manhattan (New York, N.Y.), New York (N.Y.)People
A. N. Spanel (1901-1985), Albert Payson Terhune (1872-1942), Alfred A. Knopf (1892-1984), Amadeo Peter Giannini (1870-1949), Arthur B. Spingarn (1878-1971), Bernays family, Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987), Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004), David Page (1892-1989), Doris Fleischman Bernays (1891-), E. A. Filene (1860-1937), Edmund S. Whitman, Eric Frederick Goldman (1915-1989), Erich Leinsdorf (1912-1993), Frances Payne Bingham Bolton (1885-1977), Freud family, George Creel (1876-1953), George H. Phelps (1883-1945), George W. Hill (1884-1946), Gypsy Rose Lee (1914-1970), H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965), Henry Robinson Luce (1898-1967), Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), Homer E. Capehart (1897-1979)ID Numbers
- OLID: OL410747A
- ISNI: 0000000110327312
- VIAF: 110922659
- Wikidata: Q434839
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q434839
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Alternative names
- Edward L Bernays
- Edward Bernays
- Edward Bernay
- edward bernays
- Edward Louis Bernays
January 30, 2025 | Edited by meot | added link to bbc documentary of Adam Curtis |
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January 30, 2025 | Edited by meot | add date and place of birth and death, links to picure and wikipedia |
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