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Read this prizewinning historians immersive New York Times account of the famous writers who in the runup 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 warravaged world sometimes perched atop mules on wooden saddles sometimes gliding through countries in the splendour of a firstclass 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 HR Knickerbocker Vincent Sheean and Dorothy Thompson a closeknit band of wildly famous American reporters who in the runup 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