The LRB Podcast

The Woman Who Interviewed Hitler

Jan 17, 2023

33:57

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The One Reporter Who Got an Interview With Hitler

02:56

The L.A.B. Podcast: Deborah Frullel

01:45

Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis Divorced

04:01

Introduction

2min

The One Reporter Who Got an Interview With Hitler

3min

How Dorothy Thompson Got the Interview With Hitler?

2min

Dorothy Thompson Expelled From Nazi Germany

1min

Dorothy Thompson's It Can't Happen Here

2min

Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis Divorced

4min

Dorothy Thompson's the Holocaust and the Holocaust

3min

Dorothy Thompson Is a Fierce Advocate for the US to Join the Blitz

4min

The L.R.B.'s New Close Readings Podcast

3min

10.

Are We Going to Give the Germans an Unconditional Surrender?

3min

11.

What's Going On?

2min

12.

Who Goes Nazi?

2min

13.

Is There a Refugee Crisis in the Middle East?

2min

14.

The L.A.B. Podcast: Deborah Frullel

2min

In 1939, Dorothy Thompson was on the cover of Time, the ‘First Lady of American journalism’ and a major celebrity. By 1945, she’d been widely dismissed as a crank.

Deborah Friedell joins Tom to discuss Thompson’s enormous influence in interwar America, and her idiosyncratic mix of prescience and short-sightedness.

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