‘Everyone is terribly kind’
Deborah Friedell: Dorothy Thompson at War, 19 January 2023
The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler
by Kathryn Olmsted.
Yale, 314 pp., £25, April 2022,978 0 300 25642 0 Show More
by Kathryn Olmsted.
Yale, 314 pp., £25, April 2022,
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
by Deborah Cohen.
William Collins, 427 pp., £10.99, March,978 0 00 830590 1 Show More
by Deborah Cohen.
William Collins, 427 pp., £10.99, March,
“... that was about it. The year before, only 5 per cent had supported taking in more refugees. In Kathryn Olmsted’s book The Newspaper Axis, American newspaper owners are shown putting their weight behind isolationism, what William Randolph Hearst preferred to call ‘America first’. He commissioned Hitler and Mussolini to write for his many ... ”