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Jul 29, 20 public relations ebook written by edward l. Edward louis bernays 18911995 was an austrianamerican pioneer in the field of public relations. He presents broad approaches and solutions as they were successfully carried out in his long professional career. Bernays brilliantly combined mastery of the social sciences with a keen understanding of. A bright student, he enrolled in cornell university at the age of 16 to study agriculture. Edward bernays was the inventor of public relations. He combined the ideas of gustave le bon and wilfred trotter on crowd psychology with the psychoanalytical ideas of his uncle, sigmund freud. Bernays explains the underlying philosophy of public relations and the pr methods and practices to be applied.
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