Background
Seldes, George was born on November 16, 1890 in Alliance, New Jersey, United States. Son of George Sergius and Anna (Saphro) Seldes.
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Witness to a Century: Encounters with the Noted, the Notorious, and the Three SOBs
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"This extraordinary book . . . is a reminder . . . of the sins of suppression and untruth that have been and can be committed in the name of American journalism . . . One of the last first-person statements from a generation that included Hitler, Nehru, and Mao . . . and Seldes too." --Columbia Journalism Review
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Facts and Fascism FACTS AND FASCISM By Seldes, George ( Author )Jul-01-2009 Paperback
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Facts and Fascism
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Facts and Fascism
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"This book names the most powerful forces in Europe which organized the Fascist and Nazi parties and movement, the powerful American forces which own, control and subsidize native Fascism, and the spokesmen, radio orators, writers and other agents of reaction in America." Facts and Fascism is the definitive account and source book on Fascism in the United States after the First World War and on into the Second. No doubt every subsequent work on this explosive topic owes a great debt to this original research. By crusading investigative journalist George Seldes, the book is in three parts: 1) The Big Money and Big Profits in Fascism, 2) Native Fascist Forces, and 3) Our Press as a Fascist Force. The first part reveals the backing of U.S. and British big business behind the rise of Fascism and militarism, with chapters on Germany, Italy, Japan, and Spain, the Nazi cartels and the National Association of Manufacturers. The author was a reporter in Italy in the early 20's as Fascism got its start, and wrote a full-length, critical portrait of Mussolini. In "Native Fascist Forces," Seldes first tells the story of the botched putsch by J. P. Morgan and the American Legion against FDR in 1934 - surely one of the most hushed-up episodes in US history. Next Seldes dissects the Ford empire's support for Nazism and its repressive, even murderous labor practices, and Nazi apologists like Lindbergh, Father Coughlin and the Reader's Digest. The third part explores and deplores acts of treason by war-profiteering heavy industry and by the major newspaper chains. He exposes their habit of faking news for their political agenda, going back to the 1850's in support of black slavery, and white servitude - that is, with attacks on labor and social justice. The last chapter discusses profiteering from a different form of slavery, the tobacco addiction. Among the appendices is one on the definition of Fascism, and data on Who Owns America - thirteen plutocratic families.
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Facts and Fascism
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As a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in the early 1900's, George Seldes witnessed the end of World War I and the immediate rise of Fascism in Germany, Italy, and the United States. Later as an independent Journalist, he travelled to Spain and covered the violent Fascist takeover. The horrors he witnessed in Spain convinced Seldes to fight Fascism everywhere. A year after returning from Spain, Seldes began his own newsletter, In Fact, and continued to report on the rise of Fascism in the United States and throughout the world. Facts and Fascism covers some of the biggest stories reported in In Fact that the rest of the American Press refused to print. Some of the biggest Industrialists in Germany, Italy, and America paid for Fascism while also profiteering on the early stages of World War II. The major metropolitan newspapers refused to publish cigarette studies that proved negative health effects for fear of losing Cigarette Advertisers. Major American Industrialists spent millions of dollars arming criminals, murderers and racketeers against the Labor movement.
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The Great Thoughts, From Abelard to Zola, from Ancient Greece to Contemporary America, the Ideas that have Shaped the History of the World
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Upon its publication, George Seldes's The Great Thoughts instantly took its place as a classic--a treasure house of the seminal ideas that have shaped the intellectual history of the world down through the ages. Seldes, a pivotal figure in the history of American journalism and a tireless researcher, spent the better part of his extraordinary lifetime compiling the thoughts that rule the world, casting his net widely and wisely through the essential works of philosophy, poetry, psychology, economics, politics, memoirs, and letters from the ancient Greeks to the modern Americans. Now Seldes's splendid and important work has been revised and updated to include the great thoughts that have changed our world in the decade since the book's first appearance. Quotations from leaders as varied as Nelson Mandela, Lech Walesa, Yitzak Rabin, Newt Gingrich, and Jesse Jackson reflect the radical shifts in the world political scene. Toni Morrison and Cornel West speak out on the enduring vitality of African-American culture. Alvin Toffler and Arthur C. Clarke give us a glimpse into the future. Gloria Steinem and Monique Wittig define the motives and the goals of late twentieth-century feminism. Rachel Carson, Aldo Leopold, and Wallace Stegner ponder the meaning of wilderness in an increasingly populated and industrialized world. These and scores of other thinkers in all major disciplines have added their voices to this new edition of The Great Thoughts. USA Today praised the first edition of The Great Thoughts as "a browser's delight." The work of a lifetime, brought up-to-date to reflect the global upheaval of the past decade, The Great Thoughts stands alone as an enduring achievement and an invaluable resource.
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LORDS OF THE PRESS. The Facts About the Most Powerful Anonymous Group of Men in America.
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1946 book
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- Sawdust Caesar: The Untold Story of Mussolini and
- The Great Thoughts, From Abelard to Zola, from Ancient Greece to Contemporary America, the Ideas that have Shaped the History of the World (487 pages)
- { WITNESS TO A CENTURY: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE NOTED, THE NOTORIOUS, AND THE THREE SOBS } Seldes, George ( AUTHOR ) Nov-10-1998 Paperback
- Sawdust Caesar; the untold history of Mussolini and fascism (Hardback book with dust jacket)
- Tell the Truth and Run: My 44 Year Fight for a Free Press
- Sawdust Caesar: The Untold History of Mussolini and Fascism (This is a book about Mussolini and Fascism.)
- SAWDUST CAESAR
George Seldes
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George Seldes, American author. Recipient award for professional excellence Association Education in Journalism, The George Polk Annual award, 1982, Sigma Delta Chi Society Professional Journalists, Temple University award, 1982, annual C.L. award American Civil Liberties Union Vermont, 1989, Vermont Outstanding Citizen award, 1990.
Education
Student, Harvard, 1912-1913.
Career
Reporter, Pittsburgh Leader, 1909-1910; night editor, Pittsburgh Post, 1910-1916; war correspondent with, Advertising Educational Foundation, 1918-1919; head, Berlin bureau Chicago Tribune, 1920-1925; head, Rome bureau Chicago Tribune, 1924-1925; war correspondent, French campaign in Syria, 1926-1927; correspondent, Chicago Tribune, Mexico, 1927-1928; war correspondent, New York Post in, Spain, 1936-1937; author, since 1928; editor weekly newsletter, In Fact, 1940-1950.
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Facts and Fascism
("This book names the most powerful forces in Europe which...)
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The Great Thoughts, From Abelard to Zola, from Ancient Greece to Contemporary America, the Ideas that have Shaped the History of the World
(Upon its publication, George Seldes's The Great Thoughts ...)
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Facts and Fascism
(As a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in the early 1...)
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Sawdust Caesar: The Untold History of Mussolini and Fascism
(This is a book about Mussolini and Fascism.)
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Sawdust Caesar; the untold history of Mussolini and fascism
(Hardback book with dust jacket)
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Witness to a Century: Encounters with the Noted, the Notorious, and the Three SOBs
("This extraordinary book . . . is a reminder . . . of the...)
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The Great Thoughts, From Abelard to Zola, from Ancient Greece to Contemporary America, the Ideas that have Shaped the History of the World
(487 pages)
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LORDS OF THE PRESS. The Facts About the Most Powerful Anonymous Group of Men in America.
(1946 book)
- Sawdust Caesar: The Untold Story of Mussolini and
- Facts and Fascism FACTS AND FASCISM By Seldes, George ( Author )Jul-01-2009 Paperback
- { WITNESS TO A CENTURY: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE NOTED, THE NOTORIOUS, AND THE THREE SOBS } Seldes, George ( AUTHOR ) Nov-10-1998 Paperback
- Tell the Truth and Run: My 44 Year Fight for a Free Press
- SAWDUST CAESAR
- Facts and Fascism
- Sawdust Caesar;: The untold history of Mussolini and fascism,
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Facts and Fascism
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Son of; married Helen Larkin Wiesman.
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Political Party
Democrat
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Recipient award for professional excellence Association Education in Journalism, The George Polk Annual award, 1982, Sigma Delta Chi Society Professional Journalists, Temple University award, 1982, annual C.L. award American Civil Liberties Union Vermont, 1989, Vermont Outstanding Citizen award, 1990.Recipient award for professional excellence Association Education in Journalism, The George Polk Annual award, 1982, Sigma Delta Chi Society Professional Journalists, Temple University award, 1982, annual C.L. award American Civil Liberties Union Vermont, 1989, Vermont Outstanding Citizen award, 1990.
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Recipient award for professional excellence Association Education in Journalism, The George Polk Annual award, 1982, Sigma Delta Chi Society Professional Journalists, Temple University award, 1982, annual C.L. award American Civil Liberties Union Vermont, 1989, Vermont Outstanding Citizen award, 1990.Recipient award for professional excellence Association Education in Journalism, The George Polk Annual award, 1982, Sigma Delta Chi Society Professional Journalists, Temple University award, 1982, annual C.L. award American Civil Liberties Union Vermont, 1989, Vermont Outstanding Citizen award, 1990.