Edmund Keeley makes a penetrating inquiry into the injustices of the "Polk affair"--the sensational murder of the zealous American journalist George Polk during the Greek Civil War, and the subsequent trial of a scapegoat in whitewashed proceedings that involved not only Greek, American, and British government officials but also a committee of distinguished American journalists and their representatives in Greece. Keeley's account shows how Cold War politics and Greek civil conflict led to the torture, forced confession, and conviction of a Salonika journalist. "[A] masterly reexamination of the affair...Keeley has done remarkable work in bringing to light a great deal that was not previously known." --C. M. Woodhouse, The New York Review of Books " ...a compelling work of detection and analysis...a readable and provocative work." --Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times " ...painstaking research, coupled with an admirable intellectual rigor, has produced a work that is a model of clarity and honesty."--Phillip Knightley, The Washington Post Book World
- ISBN10 0691055653
- ISBN13 9780691055657
- Publish Date 21 April 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 September 1997
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 412
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/4319.html