Last Call at the Hotel Imperial by Deborah Cohen

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial by Deborah Cohen

Effervescent New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far Bursts with colour and incident FT Best Books of Summer

‘High-speed, four-lane storytelling … Cohen’s all-action narrative bursts with colour and incident’
Financial Times

‘A rivetingly raw account’
Spectator

‘As effervescent, for more than four hundred pages, as its winsome and hyperactive characters’
New Yorker

‘Ambitious … a distressing, immersive recounting of how denial, passivity and pacification aided the rise of authoritarian regimes’
New York Times

‘Today the war news is available around the clock on TV screens, in print, and on the internetBack then the best source of news was an intrepid band of young American newspaper correspondents … prodigious research and sparkling prose. The book is a model of its kind’
Wall Street Journal

‘Giddy with the tumultuous drama of the era… the rollicking group biography of a colourful cabal of American war reporters in the 1920s and 30s who landed seminal interviews with dictators and revolutionaries alike’ Marina Hyde, Favourite Reads of 2022

‘Sheer brilliance of writing and storytelling . . . entwining collective biography with the urgency of journalism’s interwar critiques to produce a riveting and deeply thought-provoking read’ Charlotte Elkins

‘A fresh, fast-paced history of the twentieth-century’s most defining events through the eyes of the foreign correspondents who dashed off to cover them … A riveting narrative that unites public and private affairs with rare fluency and power’
Maya Jasanoff, author of The Dawn Watch

‘Beautifully written … A fascinating reminder of the days when first rate correspondents had not just access, time and money but real influence over world affairs’
Caroline Moorehead, author of Martha Gellhorn: A Life

‘Brilliantly conceived, beautifully written, this is a daring new history of the world between the wars …Unforgettable’
Adam Tooze, author of Shutdown

Deborah Cohen is Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Northwestern University. She is the author of three books including The War Come Home, Household Gods and Family Secrets, for which she won the Forkosch Prize and the Stansky Prize.

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ISBN 13	9780008305864
ISBN 10	0008305862
Title	Last Call at the Hotel Imperial
Author	Deborah Cohen
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2022-03-17
Number of pages	592
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