These individual reporters inspired related films including Alfred Hitchcock’s Foreign Correspondent and Woman of the Year, starring Katharine Hepburn.Ĭohen’s book has already been well-received, with positive reviews from The New York Times, The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Publishers’ Weekly, Kirkus, Booklist, Library Journal, and BookPage. 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. The book explores the lives of four journalists who reported from Europe and Asia during the lead-up to World War II. Historian Deborah Cohen’s book Last Call at the Hotel Imperial has been chosen as one of The New Yorker’s best books of 2022.
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