Courtier to the Crowd

Courtier to the Crowd is the full-length biography of the public relations pioneer Ivy Ledbetter Lee.

This book traces the story of Lee through his early training in the family of a Methodist minister and in schools, in the newspaper office, as a fledgling publicist, and then as a pioneer public relations counsel for some of the greatest corporations in the world. He was one of the first exponents of the philosophy of "full disclosure" in news. He tore away the insulation of the "corporate v...