Pamela D. Toler

The Dragon from Chicago (eBook, ePUB)

The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For fans of unheralded women's stories, a captivating look at Sigrid Schultz-one of the earliest reporters to warn Americans of the rising threat of the Nazi regime "No other American correspondent in Berlin knew so much of what was going on behind the scene as did Sigrid Schultz." - William L. Shirer, author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich We are facing an alarming upsurge in the spread of misinformation and attempts by powerful figures to discredit facts so they can seize control of narratives. These are threats American journalist Sigrid Schultz knew all too well. The Chicago Tribune's Berlin bureau chief and primary foreign correspondent for Central Europe from 1925 to January 1941, Schultz witnessed Hitler's rise to power and was one of the first reporters-male or female-to warn American readers of the growing dangers of Nazism. In The Dragon From Chicago, Pamela D. Toler draws on extensive archival research to unearth the largely forgotten story of Schultz's years spent courageously reporting the news from Berlin, from the revolts of 1919 through the Nazi rise to power and Allied air raids over Berlin in 1941. At a time when women reporters rarely wrote front-page stories and her male colleagues saw a powerful unmarried woman as a "freak," Schultz pulled back the curtain on how the Nazis misreported the news to their own people, and how they attempted to control the foreign press through bribery and threats. Sharp and enlightening, Schultz's story provides a powerful example for how we can reclaim truth in an era marked by the spread of disinformation and claims of "fake news."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807063125
• Artikelnr.: 69160279

Autorenporträt

Pamela D. Toler, PhD, translates history for a popular audience, going beyond the familiar boundaries of American history to tell stories from other parts of the world as well as history from the other side of the battlefield, the gender line, or the color bar. Her work has appeared in American Scholar, Aramco World, MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Ms., and Time.com. She is the author of ten books of popular history for adults and children, including Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War (a nonfiction companion to the PBS historical drama Mercy Street), Through the Minefields, and Women Warriors: An Unexpected History.

Inhaltsangabe

PROLOGUE
“That Dragon from Chicago”
ONE
A Trilingual Child
TWO
Stranded
THREE
Enemy Alien
FOUR
“How to Meet a Revolution”
FIVE
Finding Her Own People
SIX
The Training of a Foreign Correspondent
SEVEN
Musical Chairs
EIGHT
Front-Page Girls, Stunt Reporters, Sob Sisters, and Mob Sisters
NINE
The “Right Man” for the Job
TEN
On the Job
ELEVEN
Love and Loneliness
TWELVE
“The Fascisti Are Very Restless”
THIRTEEN
When Putsch Comes to Shove
FOURTEEN
Let the Games Begin
FIFTEEN
AKA John Dickson
SIXTEEN
Never Entirely at Peace
SEVENTEEN
On the Air from Berlin
EIGHTEEN
War Seemed Inevitable
NINETEEN
The Berlin Blues
TWENTY
Going Home
TWENTY-ONE
Sick and Tired
TWENTY-TWO
“A Mild Little War Mongering Tour”
TWENTY-THREE
From Foreign Correspondent to War Correspondent
TWENTY-FOUR
Bearing Witness
TWENTY-FIVE
War Crimes
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index