Table of Contents

Stagecraft And Truth In An Age Of Public Relations * Visiting Edward Bernays * Dealing in Reality: Protocols of Persuasion The Crowd Is In The Saddle: Progressive Politics And The Rise Of Public Relations * Truth Happens: An Age of Publicity Begins * Controlling Chaos * Educate the Public! * House of Truth Changing Rhetorics Of Persuasion * Social Psychology and the Quest for the Public Mind * Unseen Engineers: Biography of an Idea * Modern Pipeline of Persuasion * Optical Illusions Battles For The American Way * Silver Chains and Friendly Giants * The Greater Good * The New Deal and the Publicity of Social Enterprise * Money Talks: Publicity of Private Enterprise Commercializing The Cosmos * Public Ultimatums * Engineering Consensus * Coda: The Public and Its Problems: Some Notes for the New Millennium

About the Author

Stewart Ewen is professor of media studies and chair of the Department of Communications at Hunter College. He is also a professor in the Ph.D. programs in history and sociology at the City University of New York Graduate centre. He is the author of the acclaimed Captains of Consciousness, Channels of Desire, and All Consuming Images, the last of which provided the basis for Bill Moyers's award-winning PBS series The Public Mind. He lives in New York City.