Public Relations [index]

Abrams, Janet Y.  "Constructing the Corporate Image: Architecture, Mass Media, and Management in the Early Multinational Corporation, a Case Study of the National Cash Register Company, Dayton, OH, 1884-1906."  PhD dissertation, Princeton University, 1989.

Aldrich, Mark. “Public Relations and Technology: The ‘Standard Railroad of the World’ and the Crisis in Railroad Safety, 1897–1916.” Pennsylvania History 74 (Winter 2007):  74–104.

Anderson, William B.  "Crafting the National Pastime's Image: The History of Major League Baseball Public Relations." Journalism and Mass Communication Monographs 5:1 (Spring 2003).

Bernays, Edward L.  Crystallizing Public Opinion. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923.

Bernays, Edward L.  Biography of an Idea: Memoirs of Public Relations Council Edward L. Bernays.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965.

Bernays, Edward L.  "Emergence of the Public Relations Council: Principles and Recollections."  Business History Review 45 (August 1971): 296-313.

Bird, William L.  Better Living: Advertising, Media, and the New Vocabulary of Business Leadership, 1935-1955. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1999.

Carey, Alex.  Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Cecil, Matthew C.  "Seductions of Spin: Public Relations and the FBI Myth."  PhD dissertation, University of Iowa, 2000.

Crawford, Kenneth Gale.  The Pressure Boys: The Inside Story of Lobbying in America.  New York: Messner, 1939.

Cutlip, Scott M. The Unseen Power: Public Relations, A History. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1994.

Cutlip, Scott M.  Public Relations History: From the 17th to the 20th Century.   Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1995.

Ewen, Stuart.  PR!: A Social History of Spin. New York: Basic Books, 1996.

Fones Wolf, Elizabeth.  Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-1960.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.  

Fones Wolf, Elizabeth. "Creating a Favorable Business Climate: Corporations and Radio Broadcasting, 1934-1954." Business History Review 73, No. 2 (Summer 1999): 221-255.

Fullerton, Ronald A.  “The Art of Public Relations: U.S. Department Stores, 1876-1923.”  Public Relations Review 16:3 (Fall 1990): 68-79.

Galambos, Louis.  The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.

Golden, L.L.L.  Only by Public Consent: American Corporations' Search for Favorable Public Opinion.  New York, 1968.

Gower, Karla K.  "Rediscovering Women in Public Relations: Women in the Public Relations Journal, 1945-1972." Journalism History 27:1 (Spring 2001): 14-21.

Gower, Karla K.  Public Relations and the Press: The Troubled Embrace.  Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007.

Gruening, Ernest.  The Public Pays: A Study of Power Propaganda.  New York: Vanguard Press, 1931.  (PR by public utilities to influence legislation in the 1920s)

Henry, Susan. "Anonymous in Her Own Name: Public Relations Pioneer Doris Fleischman."  Journalism History 23:2 (Spring 1997): 50-62.

Henry, Susan.  "There is Nothing in This Profession That a Woman Cannot Do: Doris E. Fleischman and the Beginnings of Public Relations." American Journalism 16:2 (Spring 1999): 85-111.

Hiebert, Ray Eldon.  Courtier to the Crowd: The Story of Ivy L. Lee and the Development of Public Relations. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1986.

Hill, John W.  The Making of a Public Relations Man.  New York: McKay, 1963.

Irwin, Will.  Propaganda and the News.  New York: Whittlesey House, 1936.

Jackall, Robert, and Janine M. Hirota.  Image Makers: Advertising, Public Relations, and the Ethos of Advocacy.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Jones, John Price, and David McLaren Church.  At the Bar of Public Opinion: A Brief for Public Relations.  New York: Inter-River Press, 1939.

Kelly, Stanley, Jr.  Professional Public Relations and Political Power.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1956.

Kerr, Robert L.  "Creating the Corporate Citizen: Mobil Oil's Editorial Advocacy Campaign in the New York Times to Advance the Right and Practice of Corporate Political Speech."  American Journalism 21 (Fall 2004): 39-62.

Key, V. O.  Politics, Parties, and Pressure Groups.  Fourth edition.  New York: Crowell, 1958.

Kirk, Jeremy.  The Build-Up Boys.  New York: Scribner’s, 1950.  (PR)

Lamme, Margot Opdycke. “Outside the Prickly Nest: Revisiting Doris Fleischman.”  American Journalism 24 (Summer 2007): 85–107.

Lee, Ivy.  Publicity: Some of the Things it is and is Not.  New York: Industries Publishing Co., 1925.

Lewis, David L.  The Public Image of Henry Ford. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1976.

Lloyd, Craig M.  Aggressive Introvert: Herbert Hoover and Public Relations Management, 1912-1932. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1973.

McCamy, James L.  Federal Publicity: Its Practice in Federal Administration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1939.

Maney, Richard.  Fanfare, the Confessions of a Press Agent.  New York: Harper, 1957.

Marchand, Roland. Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Miller, Karen S. The Voice of Business: Hill & Knowlton and Postwar Public Relations. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Moore, Kimbery Williams.  "Toward and Inclusive History of PR: An Examination of the Founding of the NAACP and ADL and Their Uses of PR, 1907-1917."  PhD dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2003.

Nye, David E.  Image Worlds: Corporate Identities at General Electric, 1890-1930. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985.

Olasky, Marvin.  "Bringing Order Out of Chaos: Edward Bernays and the Salvation of Society Through Public Relations."  Journalism History 12:1 (Spring 1985): 17-21.

Olasky, Marvin. "Corporate Public Relations: A New Historical Perspective." Journalism Monographs, No. 102 (1987).

Pearson, R.  "Perspectives on Public Relations History." Public Relations Review 16:3 (Fall 1990): 27-38.

Pimlott, J. A. R.  Public Relations and American Democracy.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951.

Pratt, Joseph A., et al.  Voice in the Marketplace: A History of the National Petroleum Council.  College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2001.

Raucher, Alan. Public Relations and Business, 1900-1929. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1968.

Reichenbach, Harry.  Phantom Fame.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1931.  (early press agent)

Ross, Irwin.  The Image Merchants.  Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959.

Sheehan, Steven T.  "The Rise and Fall of the Consumer's Democracy: Class, Consumption, Manhood, and Citizenship in American Public Relations and Popular Culture."  PhD dissertation, Indiana University, 2003.

Stole, Inger L.  Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate PR in the 1930s.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

Straughan, Dulcie M.  “Women's Work: Public Relations Efforts of the US Children's Bureau to Reduce Infant and Maternal Mortality, 1912-1921." Public Relations Review 27 (2001)” 337-351.

Straughan, Dulcie M.   "Lift Every Voice and Sing": The Public Relations Efforts of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1960-65."  Public Relations Review 30 (2004): 49-60.

Straughan, Dulcie M.  "Lifting as We Climb": The Role of the National Association Notes in Furthering the Issues Agenda of the National Association of Colored Women, 1897-1920.”  Media History Monographs 8:2 (2006).

Tedlow, Richard S. Keeping the Corporate Image: Public Relations and Business, 1900-1950. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1979.

Tye, Larry.  The Father of Spin: Edward R. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations. New York: Crown Publishing, 1998.

Walker, S. H., and Paul Aklar.  Business Finds its Voice: Management’s Efforts to Sell the Business Idea to the Public.  New York: Harper & Bros., 1938.

Whyte, Jr., William H.  Is Anybody Listening?  How and Why U.S. Business Fumbles When it Talks With Human Beings.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952.