Author: ROWSE, Arthur Edward
Title: Slanted News: A Cast Study of the Nixon and Stevenson Fund Stories
Description: Boston, Beacon Press, 1957. Hardcover. Foreword by Erwin D. Canham. Small 4to. Tan cloth with red spine lettering, pictorial corner (NOT price) clipped dust jacket. (6pp), 139pp. Numerous illustrations. Fine/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn and lightly age toned. Handsome first edition. Notes front jacket panel, "How is a reader to determine the difference between fact and opinion in the news? Here is a case study of the way the papers handled the Nixon and Stevenson fund stories in 1952, showing how one can tell when the news is being slanted" -- most interesting is that this copy belonged to the son of Democratic presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson II, the Illinois senator Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), and bears a sheet of his engraved letterhead tipped to front flyleaf. .

Keywords: Presidential


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