PR! A Social History Of Spin
Book description
The early years of the twentieth century were a difficult period for Big Business. Corporate monopolies, the brutal exploitation of labour, and unscrupulous business practices were the target of blistering attacks from a muckraking press and an increasingly resentful public. Corporate giants were no longer able to operate free from…
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Why read it?
1 author picked PR! A Social History Of Spin as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
In the ‘creative’ agency where I worked we always looked down our noses at P.R. But reading this book I realised to my shame that the thinking of the best PR experts has generally been way ahead of the plonky theories of ad agencies.
Why try to ‘persuade’ people when you can create a version of reality that makes persuasion unnecessary? Compared with the jiu-jitsu of great P.R. even the best ads look like a clumsy punch on the nose.
From Paul's list on making sense of the madness of advertising.
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