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Robert E. Bartholomew & Hilary Evans
Panic Attacks [EPUB ebook]
Media Manipulation and Mass Delusion

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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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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 256 ● ISBN 9780752494708 ● Tamaño de archivo 0.3 MB ● Editorial The History Press ● Ciudad London ● País GB ● Publicado 2004 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 2659409 ● Protección de copia DRM social

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