About this item
A prize-winning historian's revelatory account ofa 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 "As intimate and gripping as a novel, this brilliant book vividly conveys what it felt like to live through the shocking crises of the thirties and forties." - Larissa MacFarquhar, author of Strangers DrowningThey 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.
About the Author
Deborah Cohen is a historian of Mexico and the United States in the twentieth century. Her work brings questions of race, gender, imperialism, modernity, labor, and immigration to bear on nation-state formation and other political projects. Born in Chicago,she studied at the University of Illinois (B.S.) and the University of Chicago (M.A. and Ph.D). She now resides in Saint Louis and is an associate professor of history at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She previously taught at Chicago, Cornell, Mt. Holyoke, and Bowling Green State.
