The Fourth Enemy : Journalism and Power in the Making of Peronist Argentina, 1930–1955 / James Cane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cane, James, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The rise of Juan Perón to power in Argentina in the 1940s is one of the most studied subjects in Argentine history. But no book before this has examined the role the Peronists’ struggle with the major commercial newspaper media played in the movement’s evolution, or what the resulting transformation of this industry meant for the normative and practical redefinition of the relationships among state, press, and public. In The Fourth Enemy, James Cane traces the violent confrontations, backroom deals, and legal actions that allowed Juan Domingo Perón to convert Latin America’s most vibrant commercial newspaper industry into the region’s largest state-dominated media empire. An interdisciplinary study drawing from labor history, communication studies, and the history of ideas, this book shows how decades-old conflicts within the newspaper industry helped shape not just the social crises from which Peronism emerged, but the very nature of the Peronist experiment as well.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

list of illustrations

preface and acknowledgments

list of abbreviations

Introduction: From Fourth Estate to Fourth Enemy

Part 1

1 The Fourth Estate

2 Journalism and Power in the Impossible Republic

Part 2

3 The Triumph of Silence

4 Journalism as Labor Power

5 Scenes from the Press Wars

Part 3

6 The Die Is Cast

7 The Fourth Enemy

Conclusion: Journalism and Power in the New Argentina

notes

bibliography

index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)

ISBN:

9780271099866