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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464021403321

Autore

Cuthbertson Ken

Titolo

A complex fate : William L. Shirer and the American century / / Ken Cuthbertson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montréal, Québec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2015

©2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (577 p.)

Disciplina

070.92

Soggetti

Novelists, American - 20th century

Journalists - United States

War correspondents - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover ""; ""A COMPLEX FATE""; ""Title ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Dedication  ""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Midwestern Beginnings""; ""2 Cedar Rapids""; ""3 More Questions than Answers""; ""4 Paris""; ""5 The World's Dizziest Newspaper""; ""6 Gabardine Trenchcoats and Late-Night Trains""; ""7 Vienna: A Capital without a Nation""; ""8 SHIRER FLY INDIA""; ""9 Mahatma Gandhi""; ""10 Termination""; ""11 From Paris to Berlin""; ""12 The Nightmare Years""; ""13 A Change of Direction""; ""14 An Unlikely Duo""; ""15 Return to Vienna""

""16 We now take you to London...""""17 Radio News Comes of Age""; ""18 The Gathering Clouds of War""; ""19 A Pandora's Box of Horrors""; ""20 War on the Western Front""; ""21 Hitler Ascendant""; ""22 Auf wiedersehen, Berlin""; ""23 Berlin Diary""; ""24 The Price of Fame""; ""25 Change and Confusion""; ""26 The Banality of Evil""; ""27 Changing Times""; ""28 Tides of Intolerance""; ""29 Pride ruined the angels""; ""30 Signing Off at CBS""; ""31 May his voice be heard again""; ""32 Blacklisted""; ""33 End of an Affair""; ""34 A Book for the Ages""

""35 The transientness of our existence""""36 An Ending and a New Beginning""; ""37 Memoirs""; ""38 A Twenty-Year-Old Mind in an



Eighty-Year-Old Body""; ""39 Tenacious to the End""; ""40 The Final Act""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""