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The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler

byKathryn Olmsted

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. Drawing on biographical detail, personal testimony, and historical context, the narrative gives The Newspaper Axis a concrete sense of time, place, and consequence. Across the book, the six press barons who enabled hitler becomes a way to examine power, adaptation, responsibility, and change within biography & autobiography and history. The Newspaper Axis ultimately offers a nuanced guide to the evidence, the human stakes, and the consequences that make this subject worth revisiting.

Publisher

Yale University Press

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

320

ISBN

9780300256420