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Twentieth-Century Cause Célèbre: Sacco, Vanzetti, and the Press, 1920–1927. By John F. Neville. (Westport: Praeger, 2004. xvi, 189 pp. $69.95, ISBN 0-275-97783-8.)
John F. Neville sees the Sacco-Vanzetti trial as a watershed event. More than mere tabloid journalism, press coverage of the trial exemplified three developments characterizing twentieth-century media culture: propaganda became a powerful art intertwined with ordinary media practices and capable of systematically distorting public opinion; this distortion occurred through international networks of media coverage; conspiracy theories acquired a cachet that has not been relinquished. . . .
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