Even the Gods Can't Change History: The Facts Speak for Themselves

By George Seldes

Book Overview

If there were an award given for journalistic endurance during the 20th century, and if it were given fairly, George Seldes would be the runaway winner. "Even the Gods Can't Change History" is one of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0818402334
• ISBN13: 9780818402333
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Not Avail
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

REQUIRED READING

If I could mandate required reading for all American children ALL George Seldes books would be on the list; this one in particular. I would like to send a copy of this book to all Home Schooled children and tell their parents that unless the child read and studied these books they would not be passed to the next grade, or graduate. George Seldes is the only truly Honest writer of the 20th century. As an American I can state honestly, he is the only American Author that makes me proud to be an American.

Out-of-print, but not forgotten

If there were an award given for journalistic endurance during the 20th century, and if it were given fairly, George Seldes would be the runaway winner. "Even the Gods Can't Change History" is one of a long line of books Seldes wrote on the stories he covered between 1909 and the late 1930s. It adds his commentary on more recent developments, including the Watergate scandal and media coverage of it, and journalism's sacred cows of the late 20th century. Seldes, writing while in his eighties (he died in 1995 at age 104), describes the hidden stories of the end of World War I and the U.S. role in deciding the outcome, the origins of the Cold War as French Marshal Ferdinand Foch began a campaign of public statements on containing Bolshevism, and accounts on post-war Russia, Italy, Ireland, the Arab world and Spain. The ongoing theme of George Seldes's writings is that of the failure of U.S. media to tell the story truthfully. For the facts to speak for themselves, they need to reach the people. Seldes's probe into truth in journalism is as vital today as it was when published in 1976. Though this book is out of print (sadly, my local public library had withdrawn it as well), with a bit of perseverence the interested reader can get much of Seldes's take on the same events in some of his other books. If you can't find "Even the Gods Can't Change History," try "Witness to a Century," another Seldes volume that covers the historic events in his impeccable reporting career.