| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.1

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Book Review

Copper Chorus: Mining, Politics, and the Montana Press, 1889–1959. By Dennis L. Swibold. (Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 2006. xvii + 408 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95, cloth; $24.95, paper.)

The power of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company is accepted wisdom in the history of Montana. Perhaps no state other than Delaware under the influence of Dupont was as shaped by the weight of a single corporation. In Copper Chorus, Dennis Swibold dissects one of the truisms of Anaconda's past: its control of the state press. Just how many and which newspapers "the Company"—as it was known throughout Montana—owned remained a matter of speculation until 1951. That year, Anaconda sought to purchase a radio station, and the Federal Communications Commission required unprecedented disclosure of the company's interlocking corporate relationships and holdings. No one was surprised to learn that a wholly owned subsidiary of Anaconda held controlling interest in all but one of the state's daily newspapers.

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