![]() In those tumultuous years, they landed exclusive interviews with Hitler, Franco and Mussolini who sought to persuade them of fascism’s inevitable triumph. 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. Last Call at the Hotel Imperial is the extraordinary story of John Gunther, H.R. While empires collapsed and fledgling democracies faltered, they chased deposed empresses, international financiers and Balkan gunrunners, then knocked back doubles late into the night. 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. ![]() ![]() They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. Listen to 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 ![]()
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