Review: The Newspaper Axis

'Alternative facts' and 'fake news' coverage plagued FDR too

The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler by Kathryn S. Olmsted. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022)

In our hazy collective memory about Franklin Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the march toward World War II in the 1930s, we sometimes assume the people of the United States were absorbing the printed and broadcasted word…