Deborah E. Lipstadt, Director, Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies and Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies. She has taught at UCLA and Occidental College in

Lipstadt does not completely prove her thesis however, because she never assimilates her data. She states for the reader many possibilities for the Press reaction to the news in Germany such as pressure from employers to stay there, lack of understanding of what was happening, disbelief and she insinuates anti-Semitism. However, she then goes on to reiterate at the end of every chapter that the press could have done more. Why? How? She goes into great detail of reporters and papers who do cover the Holocaust correctly. “ There were dditorial boards, such as the Philsdelphia Record’s, and magazines such as the New Preublic and The Naation which accepted the reporters’ anlyses and accurately predicted that while ‘Jewish beatings may stop… the ‘law’ will be sued to deprive Jews of personal and political rights.” (31) The problem for the reader arises in that she never takes that extra step in analyzing her sources and linking those sources to her thesis.

Lipstadt ultimately ends her book stating that the Press should have known better and that there was a general anti-Semitism throughout the United States that prevented better coverage of Holocaust. In her reference to other members of the press and the pulbic she states “… many government officials, members ofthepress, and leaders of toehr religions hebaved as if Jewish lives were a cheap commodity”(276). She goes on to say “While no one among the allies orin the press wanted tosee Jews

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