Never tire of protesting

Truth suppressed, truth distorted, truth triumphant - truth is the theme of this book by a fearless journalist who has made a lifelong crusade for truth in the mass media. In this book George Seldes tells how the facts in the tobacco-and-death, cigarets-and-cancer story have been twisted and falsified and hidden for nearly three decades. He reveals why Reader's Digest isn't a digest, how some members of Congress are bought, how a great university practiced anti-Semitism and lied about it. Through these pages march the heroes and scoundrels of mankind's fateful years - the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Korean conflict, the bitter, controversial Vietnam war, and the brief uneasy peacetime years between the wars. From his unusual vantage point in history, Seldes gives his personal reminiscences and judgments of Heywood Broun, Senator Joseph McCarthy, Eleanor Roosevelt, George Sokolsky, Bruce Minton, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, Arnold Gingrich, the Press Lords and the Guild reporters, the Communist Party and the John Birch Society. Seldes chronicles the life and death of the courageous newsletter In fact, which he co-founded and edited. He tells how In fact scooped the world pr