'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with
colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this
prize-winning historian's "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 journalism 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 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 fascism's 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.
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