All produced extraordinary reportage that helped American readers understand the forces leading up to World War II, undertaking considerable risks. Knickerbocker, known as Knick, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on Stalin’s Russia Jimmy Sheean, who won the first National Book Award for biography, in 1935 Dorothy Thompson, the first woman to head a foreign news bureau, in Berlin and Gunther’s wife, Frances, an intimate of Jawaharlal Nehru’s with a lively command of both the English language and world politics.
Yet everyone who passes under Cohen’s gaze is fascinating: H.R. Some second-tier members are better known: William Shirer, author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960), and Rebecca West, author of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941). Of the central ring of reporters Cohen profiles in this excellent ensemble study, only John Gunther is well remembered, mostly for his bestselling 1949 book, Death Be Not Proud. A scintillating group biography of once-famed journalists who were alternately friends, allies, lovers, and rivals.
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