History
Edward Bernays has been called the "Father of Spin". As Larry Tye describes in his book The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and The Birth of Public Relations, some situations in 20th-century America where tobacco and alcohol companies used techniques to make certain behaviors more socially acceptable and Bernays was proud of his work as a propagandist.
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