books by Larry Tye

books by Larry Tye

books:

Larry Tye

The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and The Birth of Public Relations

Larry Tye

Holt Paperbacks, 2002

a compelling and unexpected biography
Larry Tye takes on a subject that few journalists would regard of savory: the biography of a PR man. One might dismiss PR people as not meriting attention or even toleration. But Tye walks a fine line here because the life of Eddie Bernays has some tension and ...

Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class

Larry Tye

Holt Paperbacks, 2005

Achievement Lost
Larry Tye tells the fascinating story of African Americans, emancipated after the Civil War, starting a steady climb to civil rights and the middle class by exploiting job opportunity that ironcially was supposed to exploit them. A must read for railroad passenger ...

Home Lands: Portrait of the New Jewish Diaspora

Larry Tye

Henry Holt and Co., 2001

The writing is stronger than the thesis
This is a very well- written study. It provides information and insight into Jewish communities such as the one in the Ukraine or the one in Dublin, Ireland which receive scant attention. However its writing is stronger than its central thesis i.e. that Judaism in the ...

Shock: The Healing Power of Electroconvulsive Therapy

Kitty Dukakis, Larry Tye

Avery, 2006

Extremely Balanced Book
As a psychotherapist and a woman who has experienced clinical depression myself, I found this book of immense value to recommend to others who may seek the relief afforded by the newer and much improved unilateral shock treatments (ECT), originally pioneered by Italian ...