Propaganda by edward l bernays6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() The Bernays family had rather notable connections back in their homeland: Ely’s sister was the wife of world-renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, and Anna was Freud’s sister. So what do all of these changes have in common? The answer is one man: Edward Louis Bernays.Įdward, born in 1891, was the son of Ely and Anna Bernays, two New Yorkers freshly emigrated from Austria. Women began to smoke cigarettes to symbolize their freedom from the yoke of male rulership, calling the death sticks “liberty torches.” Even the American diet was changing a “hearty” meal of bacon and eggs became the new norm for the Yankee breakfast. ![]() Over 100,000 men were dead from a European war most Americans wanted nothing to do with, and a consumerist frenzy was on the rise. Long ago – almost one hundred years ago – the United States was a very different place. ![]()
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