Titlebook: George Seldes’ War for the Public Good; Weaponising a Free P Helen Fordham Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under

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Subversive,paign against fascism. His pro-labour, pro-Popular Front position and the fact that unbeknownst to him his newsletter was funded by the Communist Party in the first year of its operation amplified these accusations. Seldes and his subscribers came under the surveillance of the FBI and he was eventua

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Foreign Correspondent,international news and domestic public opinion during America’s early globalization. Seldes reported on the famine in Russia, the bombardment of Damascus and the Vienna Uprisings, and he increasingly saw how news was distorted. It was after he had reported on the violence in Mussolini’s Italy that h

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Writer, foreign correspondent. He was the first of many who went on to do the same in the 1930s. Seldes sought to explain for American readers the economic and political consequences of the First World War and warn them of the rising tide of reactionary regimes emerging in Europe. He wrote about the influe

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Critic, which underpinned the New Deal measures. At the same time America’s middle classes were increasingly suspicious of the capacity of the public to understand complex issues and feared that organized labour was preparing citizens for a totalitarian dictatorship. The corporatization of newspapers, the