The newspaper axis : six press barons who enabled Hitler
Olmsted, Kathryn S.2022
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As World War II approached, the six most powerful media moguls in America and Britain tried to pressure their countries to ignore the fascist threat. The media empires of Robert McCormick, Joseph and Eleanor Patterson, and William Randolph Hearst spanned the United States, reaching tens of millions of Americans in print and over the airwaves with their isolationist views. Meanwhile in England, Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail extolled Hitler's leadership and Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express insisted that Britain had no interest in defending Hitler's victims on the continent. Olmsted shows how these media titans worked in concert to influence public opinion in a right-wing populist direction, how they echoed fascist and anti-Semitic propaganda, and how they weakened and delayed both Britain's and America's response to Nazi aggression.
Main title:
The newspaper axis : six press barons who enabled Hitler / Kathryn S. Olmsted.
Author:
Olmsted, Kathryn S., author
Imprint:
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2022.
Collation:
328 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780300256420 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
940.53112940.531 OLMS
Language:
English
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Mass media and the warWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Press coverage -- United StatesWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Press coverage -- Great BritainGermany -- Press coverage -- United StatesGermany -- Press coverage -- Great BritainJournalism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryJournalism -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryHitler, Adolf, 1889-1945Warfare and Defence
BRN:
1199141
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