Edward Louis Bernays was an pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda
Bernays himself wrote in his 1965 autobiography that Goebbels read and used his books
best-known campaigns include a 1929 effort to promote female smoking by branding cigarettes as feminist “Torches of Freedom”
His work for the United Fruit Company connected with the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of the democratically elected Guatemalan government in 1954
He worked for dozens of major American corporations including Procter & Gamble and General Electric, and for government agencies, politicians, and non-profit organizations.
