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A complex fate : William L. Shirer and the American century /
William Shirer (1904-1993), a star foreign correspondent with the Chicago Tribune in the 1920s and '30s, was a prominent member of what one contemporary observer described as an extraordinary band of American journalists, "some with the Midwest hayseed still in their hair," who gave t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montréal, Québec :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / by Morley Safer
- Midwestern beginnings
- Cedar Rapids
- More questions than answers
- Paris
- The world's dizziest newspaper
- Gabardine trenchcoats and late-night trains
- Vienna : a capital without a nation
- "Shirer fly India"
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Termination
- From Paris to Berlin
- The nightmare years
- A change of direction
- An unlikely duo
- Return to Vienna
- "We now take you to London ..."
- Radio news comes of age
- The gathering clouds of war
- A Pandora's box of horrors
- War on the Western Front
- Hitler ascendant
- Auf wiedersehen, Berlin
- Berlin diary
- The price of fame
- Change and confusion
- The banality of evil
- Changing times
- Tides of intolerance
- "Pride ruined the angels"
- Signing off at CBS
- "May his voice be heard again"
- Blacklisted
- End of an affair
- A book for the ages
- "The transientness of our existence"
- An ending and a new beginning
- Memoirs
- A twenty-year-old mind in an eighty-year-old body
- Tenacious to the end
- The final act.