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Title Statement | Last call at the Hotel Imperial: the reporters who took on a world at war / Deborah Cohen. |
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Author | Cohen, Deborah, 1968- |
Publication | New York: Random House,[2023]©2022 |
Edition | Random House trade paperback edition. |
Extent of Item | xxvi, 557 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates |
ISBN | 9780525511212 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr06976436 |
Contents | Prologue --Why not go? --Over there --If one wielded the lash --To find the center --Filing the minority report --Lost --These monsters --Mass against mass --Is he Hitler? --Feeding the tiger --The revolution inside --Warpath --I told you so --The glass coffee table --Love your enemy --His terrible courage --The week of saying everything --Epilogue : enter the obituarians --Postscript. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-529) and index. |
Summary | "Married foreign correspondents John and Frances Gunther intimately understood that it isn't only impersonal, economic forces that propel history, bringing readers so close to the front lines of history that they could feel how personal pathologies became the stuff of geopolitical crises. Together with other reporters of the Lost Generation-American journalists H.R. Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson-the Gunthers slipped through knots of surveillance and ignored orders of expulsion in order to expose the mass executions in Badajoz during the Spanish Civil War, the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, the millions of dollars that Joseph Goebbels salted away abroad, and the sexual peccadillos of Hitler's brownshirts. They conjured what it was like to ride with Hitler in an airplane ("not a word did he say to any soul"); broke the inside story about Mussolini's claustrophobia and superstitions (he "took fright" at an Egyptian mummy that had been given to him); and verified the hypnotic impression Stalin made when he walked into a room ("You felt his antennae"). But just as they were transforming journalism, it was also transforming them: who they loved and betrayed, how they raised their children and coped with death. Over the course of their careers they would popularize bringing the private life into public view, not only in their reporting on the outsized figures of their day, but in what they revealed about their own (and each other's) intimate experiences as well. What were intimate relationships, after all, but geopolitics writ small?"-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Foreign correspondents--Biography--United States |
Journalism--History--20th century--United States | |
By Name | Gunther, Frances |
Gunther, John,1901-1970 | |
Knickerbocker, H. R.(Hubert Renfro),1898-1949 | |
Sheean, Vincent,1899-1975 | |
Thompson, Dorothy,1893-1961 | |
By Genre | Biographies |
Personal narratives |