George Seldes AKA George Henry Seldes
Born: 16-Nov-1890 Birthplace: Alliance, NJ Died: 2-Jul-1995 Location of death: Windsor, VT [1] Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Cremated
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Journalist Nationality: United States Executive summary: Witness to a Century [1] Mount Ascutney Hospital and Health Center, Windsor, VT
Father: George Sergius Seldes (pharmacist) Mother: Anna Saphro (d. 1896) Brother: Gilbert Seldes (critic, d. 1970) Wife: Helen Larkin Weisman (m. 1932, d. 1979)
High School: Pittsburgh, PA (dropped out freshman year) University: Harvard University (one semester)
The New York Post Spain (1936-37) Chicago Tribune 1918-28 Pittsburgh Post Night Editor (1910-18)
Pittsburgh Leader Reporter (9-Feb-1909 to 1910)
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting Board
Traveled to Bolshevik Russia 1921 Deported from Russia (May-1923) Deported from Italy HUAC Hearings 1953 Stroke 1990 Polk Award 1981 Russian Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
Risk Factors: Former Smoker, Pacemaker
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR Reds (3-Dec-1981) · Himself
Author of books:
You Can't Print That! The Truth Behind the News, 1918-1928 (1929, collection) Can These Things Be! (1931, politics) World Panorama, 1918-1935 (1933, international affairs) Iron Blood and Profits: An Exposure of the World-Wide Munitions Racket (1934, business) The Vatican: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (1934, religion) Freedom of the Press (1935, media studies) Sawdust Caesar: The Untold History of Mussolini and Fascism (1936, biography) Lords of the Press (1938, media studies) You Can't Do That: A Survey of the Forces Attempting, in the Name of Patriotism, to Make a Desert of the Bill of Rights (1938, politics) Witch Hunt: The Technique and Profits of Redbaiting (1940, politics) The Facts Are: A Guide to Falsehood and Propaganda in the Press and Radio (1942, media studies) The Catholic Crisis (1945, religion) One Thousand Americans: The Real Rulers of the U.S.A. (1947, social studies) The People Don't Know: The American Press and the Cold War (1949, media studies) Tell the Truth and Run: My 44 Year Fight for a Free Press (1953, memoir) Never Tire of Protesting: The Story of In Fact and Other Revalations (1968, media studies) Even the Gods Can't Change History: The Facts Speak for Themselves (1976, collection) Witness to a Century: Encounters With the Noted, the Notorious and the Three SOB's (1987, memoir)
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