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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