American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson【電子書籍】[ Peter Kurth ]

＜p＞＜strong＞American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson＜/strong＞ by Peter Kurth (197,000 words, 83 illustrations)＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961) was America’s first internationally famous female foreign correspondent. Born outside of Buffalo, New York, she graduated from Syracuse University in 1914 and honed her writing and interviewing skills in the women’s suffrage movement before heading for Europe as a freelance journalist.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Reporting from Vienna, Budapest and Berlin during the rise of Nazism, she was the first western journalist to be expelled from Germany by Adolf Hitler after denigrating him in a profile. Her later columns in the Ladies’ Home Journal and radio broadcasts for CBS made her, next to Eleanor Roosevelt, the most influential woman in the United States.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Thompson was married three times: her second marriage was to the American novelist, Nobel Prize-winner, and alcoholic Sinclair Lewis; her third and happiest, to Czech artist Maxim Kopf. She also ha．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る