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Last call at the Hotel Imperial : the reporters who took on a world at war / Deborah Cohen.

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?"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780525511199
  • ISBN: 0525511199
  • Physical Description: xxvi, 557 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, [2022]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-529) and index.
Subject: Gunther, John, 1901-1970.
Gunther, Frances.
Foreign correspondents > United States > Biography.
Journalism > United States > History > 20th century.
Genre: Biographies.

Available copies

  • 18 of 20 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 20 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Albright Memorial Library 070.922 COHEN (Text) 50686016161346 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library 070.922 COH (Text) 33240004958347 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Emmaus Public Library 070.922 COHE (Text) 36446002068008 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Exeter Community Library 070.9 COH (Text) 33249025330261 Non-fiction On Holds Shelf -
Gettysburg Library 070.922 COHEN (Text)
Endowment: Ruth T. Parker Named Endowment, 2022
35740635825946 Nonfiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library 070.922 Cohen History (Text) 39427103654034 Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction Available -
Mahanoy City Public Library 070.922 B (Text) 35029000536092 MACM Adult Fiction Available -
Martin Library Adults 070.92 COH Life Times (Text)
Honor: Plated 2022: In Honor of Lynne Pfafflin Danyo by Martin Library Honors Committee 2022
33454005824966 2nd Floor Available -
North Wales Area Library 070.92 Cohen (Text) 35410000813246 NWAL Non-Fiction Available -
Paul Smith Library of Southern York County Adults 070.92 COH Nonfiction (Text) 34318001202668 Adult Area Available -


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