Panic Attacks : Media Manipulation and Mass Delusion Hardback
by Robert E. Bartholomew, Hilary Evans
Hardback
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**Examining the ability of the media to whip up a panic and our tendency to fall victim to mass delusion and hysteria. **This title discusses America's "kissing bug" scare of 1899; Seattle's atomic fallout fiasco of 1954; the phantom slasher of Taipei in 1956; Belgium's recent Coca-Cola poisoning scare and the "mad gasser" of Mattoon, and more.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:The History Press Ltd
- Publication Date:19/08/2004
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- ISBN:9780750937856
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:The History Press Ltd
- Publication Date:19/08/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780750937856