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Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News by A. Brad Schwartz (Hill and Wang, $39.99)

By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up!  (@AKessaris) “Remembered as a ‘textbook example of mass hysteria,’ the War of the Worlds panic is still cited constantly by historians as evidence of the anxiety permeating the country just before World War II.  The broadcast itself has become shorthand for the dangerous power and influence of the media, […]