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Hacks, Hitler & the Hotel Imperial

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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The Red Hot Center of the Disasters of the 1930s

There are four main figures in the book, really five, all foreign correspondents. John Gunther, HR knickerbacher, Vincent Sheen, Dorothy Thompson And John Gunther's wife Francis Feynman Gunther So they were all young people born in the more or less in the Midwest around the turn of the 20th century. They go to Europe and to Asia in the 1920s, by the 1930s and 40s, there are sort of international stars. The first one on a, you know, Francis Gunther is flirting with Nehru and becoming his advocateJohn Gunther interviews among other people, Leon Trotsky And exile, Dorothy Thompson interviews, Hitler, Nature knicker

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