| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper. By Laurel Leff. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xvi, 426 pp. $29.00, ISBN 978-0-521-81287-0.)

Laurel Leff's book adds to the long list of works discussing Americans' apathy toward the Holocaust. The failure of the New York Times to report adequately on the extermination of European Jews has been well known for decades. Deborah E. Lipstadt, among others, has recorded the downplaying of the news of the Holocaust (Deborah E. Lipstadt, Beyond Belief, 1986). Leff's contribution is her probing behind the headlines. Relying on the New York Times's archives, as well as on the personal papers of the publisher and the major editors, she investigated the personal and professional motives for their decisions. That the author was a journalist for eighteen years and a professor of journalism contributes to her understanding of how the editors and reporters operated.

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