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Read the award-winning historian author who presents us with an “immersive” (New York Times) account of the famous writers who, in preparation for World War II, defied dictatorships and rewrote the rules of modern journalism.
They were a stunning team: charming, brave, and undistracted. As journalists in the 1920s, they wandered through a world tested by wars, sometimes sitting on mules with wooden saddles, other times traveling with the luxury of a first-class sleeper.
The story of Last Call at the Hotel Imperial is about John Gunther, H.R. Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson: a close-knit group of famous American journalists who, in preparation for World War II, defied dictatorships and rewrote the rules of modern journalism.
In those turbulent years, they obtained exclusive interviews with Hitler, Franco, and Mussolini, who tried to convince them of the inevitable victory of fascism. Nehru and Gandhi also approached them, seeking American allies against British imperial policy. Churchill saw them as his best chance to persuade a reluctant America to join the war against Hitler.
They committed to the fight for freedom: passionately and with all its dangers. They discussed love, war, sex, death, and everything in between, and they wrote it all down. The cracks that ran through a fractured world, they discovered, also ran through their own marriages and friendships.
Narrated with the immediacy of a conversation overheard by chance, this revealing bibliography captures how the global turmoil of the twentieth century felt to live up close. Pages: 592, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm
Number of pages
592
Cover
Soft
Year of publication
2023
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
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