Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper
"...[an] important book..."-New York Post"...excellent..."-Commentary Magazine"Laurel Leff has written an exceptional study of one of the darkest failures of the New York Times--its non-coverage of the holocaust during World War II. How could the best newspaper in the United States, perhaps in the world, under-estimate and under-report the mass killing of more than 6,000,000 Jews? Read this book, which provides answers and in the process stands tall in scholarship, style and importance."-Marvin Kalb, Senior Fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy"Laurel Leff[...]has done a fine job...[a] wonderful book..."-New York Daily News"...impressive..."-The New York Times"This is the best book yet about American media coverage of the Holocaust, as well as an extremely important contribution to our understanding of America's response to the mass murder of the Jews."-David S. Wyman, author of The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust"This important book answers--in a compelling fashion--some of the questions which have long been asked about the New York Times' coverage of the Holocaust. Probing far behind the headlines, Leff tells the fascinating story of how the Sulzberger family was rescuing its relatives from Germany at the same time that it was burying the story of the Holocaust in the inner recesses of the paper."-Deborah E. Lipstadt, author of Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust"Laurel Leff has written an engrossing and important book about the abject failure of the world's most influential newspaper, The New York Times, to report on the Holocaust its owner and key figures knew was occurring. Her book tells us much about America at the time, the level of anti-Semitism, and the assimilationist desire of the Jewish owner of the Times to avoid stressing the unique Jewish nature of the genocide. It is part and parcel with the same mindset of the Roosevelt Administration. One can only wonder in great sorrow at how many lives might have been saved if the nation's and world's conscience had been touched by full and complete coverage by the Times of what remains the greatest crime of world history."-Stuart E. Eizenstat, former senior official in the Clinton Administration and the Special Representative of President Clinton on Holocaust-Era Issues. Author of Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor and the Unfinished Business of World War II"...skilfully[...]written, researched, and analyzed..."-New Haven Advocate"A complicated important look back."-The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"This is a well-researched and well-written book."-Haim Genizi, The Journal of American History"Buried by the Times is admirably relentless."-Ron Hollander, Montclair State University, American Jewish History..."thoroughly researched and so carefully written." -Owen V. Johnson, Jhistory