Tag: Edward Bernays

• December 5, 2017

  Democracy and Propaganda: A Timeline of Thoughts from Responsible Men

  Let’s start at the beginning. Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 – July 12, 1804) was an American statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was an influential interpreter and promoter of the U.S. Constitution, as well as first Secretary of the Treasury. Hamilton, much like the rest of the founding…
• December 1, 2017

  Propaganda: Eward Bernays and Harold Lasswell

  Hi, I decided to source Chomky’s quotes from Bernays and Lasswell. Turns out Chomsky was right. Edward Bernays (November 22, 1891 − March 9, 1995) 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…