In Fact Volume 5 Available

The complete collection of In Fact Volume 5 are now available at the Internet Archive. This collection covers 26 weeks between April 1942 and October 1942.

In Fact Volume 4 Available

The complete collection of In Fact Volume 4 are now available at the Internet Archive. This collection covers 26 weeks between October 1941 and April 1942.

In Fact Volume 1-3 Available

I was able to upload the first, second,and third volumes of In Fact to the Internet Archive. Unfortunately, Issue 12 of Volume 2 was incomplete and I was unable to upload it. Other than that, the other two volumes are complete.

A select few of the In Fact issues have been transcribed into text (.TXT) format and is available for download. Some of these were transcribed manually while others were done through OCR (Optical Character Recognition) programs. These programs are not fool-proof, so I had to review each copy for misreads and typos.

I believe the first three issues of Volume 2 has been transcribed, and a couple from Volume 1.

The People Don't Know

I uploaded "The People Don't Know" to the Internet Archive. It was originally on the HathiTrust Digital Library but I was able to (painstakingly) download and transfer the page files to PDF format. After that, it was uploaded to the Internet Archive.

Several Seldes Books Online

I've spent the last several months searching through different archives and University databases for online copies of George Seldes' books. I was actually able to locate four books in either digitized or transcribed forms.

You Can't Print That
Witch Hunt
Facts and Fascism
The People Don't Know

I also went to Wikipedia and added these links and several other books from the Internet Archive to the George Seldes article.

I plan on uploading The People Don't Know to the Internet Archive where it is likely to garner much more readers and fans of Seldes' work.

Sawdust Caesar Published Online

I was finally able to convert my Sawdust Caesar book scans into an entire PDF book file. The entire book is now available at the Internet Archive.

You can download it or read it here:

http://www.archive.org/details/SawdustCaesarTheUntoldStoryOfMussoliniAndFascism

The PDF file is complete but the text files are incomplete.

Enjoy!

In Fact Archives

I found the complete collections of In Fact and am currently in the process of archiving them at Archive.org. So far the first eight issues are available.

George Seldes on Archive.org

Archive.org was a natural place to send these articles because I learned quite a bit about George from videos and books that were available at the archive.

In Fact was Seldes' independent newsletter which he edited. The paper ran from 1940 until 1950 when the Red Scare and McCarthyism swept the country and many of his subscribers were forced to drop. In Fact covered press censorship, corruption, Fascism and all the news that the rest of the press refused to cover. His newsletter became a popular outlet for other journalists who could not get articles published. He was one of the few people to report on the link between cancer and cigarettes, and also the fact that most newspapers refused to print such articles out of fear of offending tobacco advertisers. The paper also printed articles by George Polk, who was murdered by the Fascist regime in Greece. In Fact stated shortly after that Polk believed someone would be killed by the Fascists, but this would not be widely acknowledged until the 1970's.