EDGE OF THE WORLD
Jul 06, 2021
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THE WAR BEAT, PACIFIC The American Media at War Against Japan
By Steven Casey. 395 pp. Oxford University Press, 2021. $34.95.
“THE FIRST CASUALTY when war comes is truth,” California senator Hiram Johnson, a staunch isolationist, famously declared a century ago. It’s hard to read Steven Casey’s without concluding that even when the reality of war is obscured in a fog of government
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