The Newspaper Axis : six press barons who enabled Hitler / Kathryn S. Olmsted.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olmsted, Kathryn S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Journalists.

World War, 1939-1945--Press coverage.

World War, 1939-1945--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.) : 9 b-w illus.

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II “A landmark in the political history of journalism.”—Michael Kazin, author of What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party 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. Kathryn S. Olmsted shows how these media titans worked in concert—including sharing editorial pieces and coordinating their responses to events—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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter one. The Good Haters

Chapter two. The Celebrity Strongman

Chapter three. The World’s Greatest Publisher

Chapter four. The Ordinary Joe

Chapter five. The Empire Crusader

Chapter six. The Lady Newspaperman

Chapter seven. Undominated

Chapter eight “Hitler Agrees with the Daily Express”

Chapter nine. Foreign Wars

Chapter ten. The Dictator Bill

Chapter eleven. Which Side Are You On?

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780300265552

0-300-26555-7

OCLC:

1296429575