pick
This is a brief biography of Edward Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud, pioneer of the field of public relations, workaholic, ethically dubious, oddly progressive and shameless self promoter. Propaganda and its history has always interested me so Bernays is a figure I can‘t avoid, but I came away from this book with the impression that he was complex, with self-contradictory drives and self-perceptions. His uncle should have psychoanalyzed him.
3 likes