Stagecraft and truth in an age of public relations: Visiting Edward Bernays -- Dealing in reality -- 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 -- Modern pipelines 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: the publicity of private enterprise -- Commercializing the cosmos: Public ultimatums -- Engineering consensus

1. Public Relations
2. Public Relations -- United States