Description
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary study examining the newspaper industry in Argentina during the regime of Juan Domingo Perón. Traces how Perón managed to integrate almost the entire Argentine press into a state-dominated media empire.
Trade Review“Rather than simply using newspapers as a window onto public opinion, James Cane’s book does something far more intriguing. It explores how the very notion of ‘the press’ became an object of political contestation in mid-twentieth-century Argentina and, in so doing, forces us to reconsider familiar debates over freedom of expression and state censorship. This fascinating historical study provides the basis for a deeper understanding of present-day controversies over populism and media regulation in Latin America.”
—Eduardo Elena,University of Miami
“In this book, James Cane examines one of the most controversial aspects of Juan Perón’s government in the 1940s and 1950s: his control of the press. Perón’s strategy, Cane convincingly argues, was actually the culmination of political practices initiated in the 1930s and of a process triggered by the modernization of the printed press. This is a significant contribution to Argentine cultural and political history.”
—Ariel de la Fuente,Purdue University
Table of Contents Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: From Fourth Estate to Fourth Enemy
Part 1
1 The Fourth Estate
2 Journalism and Power in the Impossible Republic
Part 2
3 The Triumph of Silence
4 Journalism as Labor Power
5 Scenes from the Press Wars
Part 3
6 The Die Is Cast
7 The Fourth Enemy
Conclusion: Journalism and Power in the New Argentina
Notes
Bibliography
Index
