03803cam a2200313 4500 578943282 TxAuBib 20220714120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593416341 0593416341 24a88beb-6d26-455b-99c7-597214559a91 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6345616 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Cohen, Deborah. Last Call at the Hotel Imperial [Libby] : The Reporters Who Took On a World at War. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2022. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 518MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 518MB. Biography & Autobiography. History. Politics. Nonfiction. HTML:<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> EDITORS’ CHOICE • A prize-winning historian’s</b> <b>“effervescent” (<i>The New Yorker</i>)</b> <b>account of&#160;a close-knit band of wildly famous American reporters who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism<br /></b><br /> <b>“As they follow Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Americans are getting an inkling of what it felt like eight decades ago when fascist dictators were on the brink of plunging Europe into war. . . Back then the best source of news was an intrepid band of young American newspaper correspondents whose exclusive dispatches brought home word of the coming cataclysm.”—<i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b><br /> <br /> They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s, they roamed across a war-ravaged world, sometimes perched atop mules on wooden saddles, sometimes gliding through countries in the splendor of a first-class sleeper car. While empires collapsed and fledgling democracies faltered, they chased deposed empresses, international financiers, and Balkan gun-runners, and then knocked back doubles late into the night.<br /> <br /> <i>Last Call at the Hotel Imperial</i> is the extraordinary story of John Gunther, H. R. Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson.&#160;In those tumultuous years, they landed exclusive interviews with Hitler and Mussolini, Nehru and Gandhi, and helped shape what Americans knew about the world. Alongside these backstage glimpses into the halls of power, they left another equally incredible set of records. Living in the heady afterglow of Freud, they subjected themselves to frank, critical scrutiny and argued about love, war, sex, death, and everything in between.<br /> <br /> Plunged into successive global crises, Gunther, Knickerbocker, Sheean, and Thompson could no longer separate themselves from the turmoil that surrounded them. To tell that story, they broke long-standing taboos. From their circle came not just the first modern account of illness in Gunther’s <i>Death Be Not Proud</i>—a memoir about his son’s death from cancer—but the first no-holds-barred chronicle of a marriage: Sheean’s <i>Dorothy and Red,</i> about Thompson’s fractious relationship with Sinclair Lewis.<br /> <br /> Told with the immediacy of a conversation overheard, this revelatory book captures how the global upheavals of the twentieth century felt up close. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-13 20:00:03. Toren, Suzanne. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=24a88beb-6d26-455b-99c7-597214559a91&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=24a88beb-6d26-455b-99c7-597214559a91&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)