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Part One: Edward Bernays: The Founding Father of Lies

Behind the Bastards

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You Are the True Wounded Man

When Doris Fleischman died in 1980 a professor named Susan Henry was inspired by the obituary Edward Bernays wrote about his wife and you know inspired her to write a book. As Susan dug more and more though and talked to the Bernays daughters, she came to very critical conclusions about Eddie. After visiting him in March, I finished writing a paper about Fleischman that was accepted for presentation at a national conference. The papers theme was his dominance of her at home and in the office and her lack of professional recognition. That's certainly spin. Yeah, he's the data spin. Big pop of spins. Jesus.

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