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Crystallizing Public Opinion: One Hundredth Anniversary Edition
The book that launched public relations 100 years ago now comes in an edition that is more than a reprint. Fully annotated, lavishly illustrated, and with more than a dozen essays by noted PR scholars it picks up where Bernays left off. See what practitioners and academics have to say about this 100th Anniversary edition (6:29).
By Edward L. Bernays. Annotations by Dick Martin. Field Notes by: Karla K. Gower, PhD; Krishnamurthy Sriramesh, PhD; Alex Sévigny PhD and Martin Waxman; Jude William R. Genilo, PhD; Alex Sévigny, PhD and Martin Waxman; Rita Men, PhD; James E. Grunig, PhD; Jeffrey S. Morosoff; Ivanka Pjesivac, PhD; Rachel Kovacs, PhD; Burton St. John III; Kathy R. Fitzpatrick; Hilary Fussell Sisco, PhD and Joe Stabb, PhD; Anthony D’Angelo; Timothy L. Howard, EdD and Tyler Smith; Tom Martin; Cayce Myers, PhD; Brenda Wrigley, PhD, and David W. Brown. Order today.
Marilyn: A Woman In Charge — Marilyn Laurie’s Life In Public Relations
By Dick Martin
Marilyn: A Woman In Charge chronicles the ascent of Marilyn Laurie, a self-described “little Jewish girl from the Bronx” from a volunteer who helped start Earth Day to advisor in the corridors of power of a great American company. It illustrates the life of a woman in charge, through days of heady highs and humbling lows with grace and resilience.
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Ofield: The Autobiography of Public Relations Man Ofield Dukes
With Rochelle L. Ford, Ph.D. and Rev. Unnia L. Pettus, Ph.D.
Ofield is the autobiography of Ofield Dukes, one of the nation's most influential African-American public relations pioneers. Penned before his death in 2011 and edited in 2017, it follows his career through many firsts as he counseled Civil Rights leaders, politicians, performers, governments and corporations.
Courtier to the Crowd
By Ray Eldon Hiebert
Courtier to the Crowd is the biography of public relations pioneer Ivy Ledbetter Lee. Lee tore away the insulation of the "corporate veil" from the acts of some of the greatest corporations in the world and allowed the press and public to become acquainted with the facts. His techniques eventually became known as the practice of public relations. Get your copy at Amazon or Barnes and Noble
Mr. Lee's Publicity Book: A Citizen's Guide to Public Relations
Ivy Ledbetter Lee with Burton St. John III, Ph.D.
Mr. Lee's Publicity Book: A Citizen's Guide to Public Relations is Lee's only known full-length manuscript. Written in 1928, discovered in 2016, and annotated by Burton St. John III, Ph.D. in 2017, it advises how to differentiate between publicity and reality, propaganda and truth. Includes commentary from prominent scholars and historians. Get your copy at Amazon or Barnes and Noble
Books and articles you can read right now
"Century of the Self"
Adam Curtis, 2002
Transcript of the four-part series first broadcast on BBC TV
"An Open Mind: William James"
Walter Lippman, 1910
"A Preface to Politics"
Walter Lippman, 1913
"The Political Scene"
Walter Lippman, 1919
"Liberty and the News"
Walter Lippman, 1920
— Journalism and the Higher Law
— Liberty and the News
— What Modern Liberty Means
"Public Opinion"
Walter Lippman, 1922
"The Phantom Public"
Walter Lippman, 1925
"The Indispensable Opposition"
Walter Lippman, 1939
"Wake Up, America!"
Condensed from the syndicated column by Walter Lippman, 1940
"Today and Tomorrow"
Walter Lippman, 1942
"The Good Society"
Walter Lippman, 1944
"The Cold War"
Walter Lippman, 1947
Lyndon Johnson Conversation with Walter Lippman
December 1, 1963 (audio file)
"Propaganda"
Edward L. Bernays, 1928
"Public Relations"
Edward L. Bernays, 1945
"Engineering of Consent"
Edward L. Bernays, 1947
"Instincts of the Herd In Peace and War"
Wilfred Trotter, 1916"
"Publicity, Some of the Things It Is and Is Not"
Ivy L. Lee, 1925
"The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind"
Gustave Le Bon, 1895
Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War
Wilfred Trotter, 1916
"Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media"
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, 1988
"The Unseen Power"
Scott Cutlip, 1994
Miscellaneous
"How to Write for The Press"
G. A. Haskell, 1884
"100 Things You Should Know About Communism"
US Government document, Committee on Un-American Activities, 1949
"National Perspectives On the Development of Public Relations"
Tom Watson, 2014
"Journalism and PR: News Media and Public Relations In the Digital Age"
John Lloyd and Laura Toogood, 2015
"Rediscovering Women In Public Relations: Women in the Public Relations Journal, 1945–1972"
Karla K. Gower, 2001