Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson. Last Call at the Hotel Imperial is the extraordinary story of John Gunther, H. They worked in the thick of dramatic and often violent events when the situations were confusing.
They were at the frontlines of the conflicts and had the first crack at interpreting the new phenomenon of modern dictatorship. The on-site reporting and interviews that resulted from their work served as important foundations for how we understand the 1920s and 1930s today. Part of what made them really good reporters was that they did have some uncanny powers of perception,” explained Cohen in an interview with On the Media. He pretty much predicted how the war was going to go. “At the start of the Second World War, Knickerbocker said this war is going to last six years. These individual reporters inspired related films including Alfred Hitchcock’s Foreign Correspondent and Woman of the Year, starring Katharine Hepburn. Knickerbocker, James Vincent “Jimmy” Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson, some of the most influential correspondents of the 20th century, as they charted two of the biggest stories of their time: the rise of fascism and the anti-colonial struggle against European empires. Leopold Professor of History at Northwestern University. Historian Deborah Cohen’s new book, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial, explores the lives of four journalists who reported from Europe and Asia during the lead-up to World War II.
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