{"product_id":"last-call-at-the-hotel-imperial-the-reporters-who-took-on-a-world-at-war-paperback","title":"Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDeborah Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE - A prize-winning historian's \"effervescent\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e) account of 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"High-speed, four-lane storytelling . . . Cohen's all-action narrative bursts with colour and incident.\"--\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eEDITORS' CHOICE - WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE - FINALIST FOR THE PROSE AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Vanity Fair, \u003c\/i\u003eNPR, \u003ci\u003eBookPage, Booklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLast Call at the Hotel Imperial\u003c\/i\u003e is the extraordinary story of John Gunther, H. R. Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePlunged 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 \u003ci\u003eDeath Be Not Proud\u003c\/i\u003e--a memoir about his son's death from cancer--but the first no-holds-barred chronicle of a marriage: Sheean's \u003ci\u003eDorothy and Red, \u003c\/i\u003e about Thompson's fractious relationship with Sinclair Lewis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold with the immediacy of a conversation overheard, this revelatory book captures how the global upheavals of the twentieth century felt up close.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeborah Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe War Come Home\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHousehold Gods, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFamily Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Northwestern University, focusing on modern Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 608\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.42 x 7.72 x 5.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 14, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978502045997,"sku":"9780525511212","price":22.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/d0NoYVFxZjZhWW90MHNtdnIxanFMZz09.webp?v=1775805509","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/last-call-at-the-hotel-imperial-the-reporters-who-took-on-a-world-at-war-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}