Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War by Deb

Description: Last Call at the Hotel Imperial by Deborah Cohen Effervescent New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So FarBursts with colour and incident FT Best Books of Summer FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Effervescent New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So FarBursts with colour and incident FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning historians "immersive" ( New York Times) account of the famous writers who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalismThey 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 splendour of a first-class sleeper car. While empires collapsed and fledgling democracies faltered, they chased deposed empresses, international financiers and Balkan gunrunners, then knocked back doubles late into the night.Last Call at the Hotel Imperial is the extraordinary story of John Gunther, H.R. Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson: 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.In those tumultuous years, they landed exclusive interviews with Hitler, Franco and Mussolini who sought to persuade them of fascisms inevitable triumph. Nehru and Gandhi also courted them, seeking American allies against British imperialism. Churchill saw them as his best shot at convincing a reluctant America to join the war against Hitler.They committed themselves to the cause of freedom: fiercely and with all its hazards. They argued about love, war, sex, death and everything in between, and they wrote it all down. The fault lines that ran through a crumbling world, they would find, ran through their own marriages and friendships, too.Told with the immediacy of a conversation overheard, this revelatory book captures how the global upheavals of the twentieth century felt to live through up close. Author Biography Deborah Cohen is Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Northwestern University. She is the author of three books including The War Come Home, Household Gods and Family Secrets, for which she won the Forkosch Prize and the Stansky Prize. Review High-speed, four-lane storytelling … Cohens all-action narrative bursts with colour and incidentFinancial TimesA rivetingly raw accountSpectatorAs effervescent, for more than four hundred pages, as its winsome and hyperactive charactersNew YorkerAmbitious … a distressing, immersive recounting of how denial, passivity and pacification aided the rise of authoritarian regimesNew York TimesToday the war news is available around the clock on TV screens, in print, and on the internet. Back then the best source of news was an intrepid band of young American newspaper correspondents … prodigious research and sparkling prose. The book is a model of its kindWall Street JournalGiddy with the tumultuous drama of the era… the rollicking group biography of a colourful cabal of American war reporters in the 1920s and 30s who landed seminal interviews with dictators and revolutionaries alike Marina Hyde, Favourite Reads of 2022Sheer brilliance of writing and storytelling . . . entwining collective biography with the urgency of journalisms interwar critiques to produce a riveting and deeply thought-provoking read Charlotte ElkinsA fresh, fast-paced history of the twentieth-centurys most defining events through the eyes of the foreign correspondents who dashed off to cover them … A riveting narrative that unites public and private affairs with rare fluency and powerMaya Jasanoff, author of The Dawn WatchBeautifully written … A fascinating reminder of the days when first rate correspondents had not just access, time and money but real influence over world affairsCaroline Moorehead, author of Martha Gellhorn: A LifeBrilliantly conceived, beautifully written, this is a daring new history of the world between the wars …UnforgettableAdam Tooze, author of Shutdown Review Quote A fresh, fast-paced history of the twentieth-centurys most defining events through the eyes of the foreign correspondents who dashed off to cover them ... A riveting narrative that unites public and private affairs with rare fluency and power Maya Jasanoff, author of The Dawn Watch Beautifully written ... A fascinating reminder of the days when first rate correspondents had not just access, time and money but real influence over world affairs Caroline Moorehead, author of Martha Gellhorn: A Life Brilliantly conceived, beautifully written, this is a daring new history ... revelatory ... The work of a truly original historian. Unforgettable Adam Tooze, author of Shutdown The celebrated journalists of the lost generation were voracious, reckless, promiscuous, funny, and drunk, and they were also shrewd and deeply political ... As intimate and gripping as a novel - I read it all at once, I couldnt stop Larissa MacFarquhar, authors of Strangers Drowning A shrewd and vivid work of history, one that combines deep research with lustrous narrative verve Fredrik Logevall, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Embers of War and JFK High-speed, four-lane storytelling ... Cohens all-action narrative bursts with colour and incident Financial Times A rivetingly raw account Spectator As effervescent, for more than four hundred pages, as its winsome and hyperactive characters New Yorker Ambitious ... a distressing, immersive recounting of how denial, passivity and pacification aided the rise of authoritarian regimes New York Times Today the war news is available around the clock on TV screens, in print, and on the internet. Back then the best source of news was an intrepid band of young American newspaper correspondents ... prodigious research and sparkling prose. The book is a model of its kind Wall Street Journal Feature * IMMENSELY CINEMATIC and will be catnip for journalists who love reading about the intense lives of journalists. * One of the writers is John Gunther, whose book DEATH BE NOT PROUD is a classic, set on curricula across US schools. Competition: Death Be Not Proud; Fighting Words;The Caine Mutiny;The Hope War and Remembrance;The Winds of War;Square Haunting;The Five;A House in the Mountains;Gellhorn;Women Who Wrote the War. John Gunther; Nancy F Cott; Herman Wouk; Caroline Moorehead; Hallie Rubenhold; Robert Fisk; Olivia Manning; Louisa Young Details ISBN0008305870 Author Deborah Cohen Language English ISBN-10 0008305870 ISBN-13 9780008305871 Format Paperback Year 2022 Imprint William Collins Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Publication Date 2022-03-15 UK Release Date 2022-03-15 Subtitle The Reporters Who Took on a World at War Pages 592 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Alternative 9780008305888 DEWEY 070.922 Audience General AU Release Date 2022-09-29 NZ Release Date 2022-09-29 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:142363166;

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