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underlined passages – likely Ryan’s work – draw attention to Bernay’s definition of “modern propaganda” and to its potential for positive and negative use: “whether, in any instance, propaganda is good or bad depends upon the merit of the cause urged, and the correctness of the information published” (p. 20). Octavo. Original black cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown, ownership stamps of Louis A. Ryan to title page and lower margin of p. 158, occasional underlining to the text. Extremities lightly rubbed, spine ends bruised, otherwise a very good copy. ¶ Noam Chomsky, “What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream”, Z Magazine , 1997. £3,500 [143470] 19 BEVERIDGE, William. Social Insurance and Allied Services. London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1942 The Beveridge Report First edition of the Beveridge Report, the document widely recognized as laying the foundations of the modern British welfare state. Commissioned by Churchill during the Second World War to evaluate the current system of social security, the report aroused great interest across the political spectrum, and Beveridge’s proposals were adopted and maintained by successive post-war governments, both Labour and Conservative. Octavo. Wire-stitched gatherings as issued, preserved in a melanex folder. Front wrapper a little creased and dust-soiled, staples a little rusty; a very good copy. ¶ Command number 6404. £225 [148789]
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Octavo. Original fine grain cloth, printed paper label, uncut and partly unopened. With 2 large folding tables, the first, “Constitutional Code”, bound in after p. xvi rather than facing p. iii as Chuo states. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, a couple of tiny chips to fore edges, overall a very good copy. ¶ Chuo C5.1. F. Rosen & J. H. Burns (eds.), Constitutional Code , Clarendon Press, 1983. £1,750 [114170] 18 BERNAYS, Edward L. Propaganda. New York: Horace Liveright, 1928 “The main manual of the public relations industry” (Chomsky) First edition, first printing, of this seminal early study of the “benign” uses of propaganda and its place as an essential tool of democracy by Freud’s nephew, “the father of public relations”; this copy from the library of Louis A. Ryan, a writer on propaganda. Noam Chomsky argues that Propaganda is “the main manual of the public relations industry. Bernays is kind of the guru. He was an authentic Roosevelt/Kennedy liberal . . . he became a leading figure of the industry, and his book was the real manual”. Louis A. Ryan’s article, “Propaganda of Organized Economic Groups” ( The American Catholic Sociological Review , 1945) discussed the impact of new technology on the spread of propaganda and its particular effect on property. The
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