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William Shirer (1904-1993), a star foreign correspondent with the
Chicago Tribune in the 1920s and '30s, was a prominent member of
what one contemporary observer described as an extraordinary band
of American journalists, "some with the Midwest hayseed still in
their hair," who gave their North American audiences a visceral
sense of how Europe was spiralling into chaos and war. In 1937,
Shirer left print journalism and became the first of the now
legendary "Murrow boys," working as an on-air partner to the iconic
CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow. With Shirer reporting from inside
Nazi Germany and Murrow from blitz-ravaged London, the pair built
CBS's European news operation into the industry leader and, in the
process, revolutionized broadcasting. But after the war ended, the
Shirer-Murrow relationship shattered. Shirer lost his job and by
1950 found himself blacklisted as a supposed Communist sympathizer.
After nearly a decade in the professional wilderness, he began work
on The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Published in 1960,
Shirer's magnum opus sold millions of copies and was hailed as the
masterwork that would "ensure his reputation as long as humankind
reads." Ken Cuthbertson's A Complex Fate is a thought-provoking,
richly detailed biography of William Shirer. Written with the full
cooperation of Shirer's family, and generously illustrated with
photographs, it introduces a new generation of readers to a
supremely talented, complex writer, while placing into historical
context some of the pivotal media developments of our time.
Emily Hahn was a woman ahead of her time, graced with a sense of
adventure and a gift for living. Born in St. Louis in 1905, she
crashed the all-male precincts of the University of Wisconsin
geology department as an undergraduate, traveled alone to the
Belgian Congo at age 25, was the concubine of a Chinese poet in
Shanghai, bore the child of the head of the British Secret Service
before World War II, and finally returned to New York to live and
write in Greenwich Village. In this memoir, first published as
essays in The New Yorker, Hahn writes vividly and amusingly about
the people and places she came to know and love - with an eye for
the curious and a heart for the exotic.
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