A complex fate : William L. Shirer and the American century
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- ISBN: 9780773545441
- ISBN: 0773545441
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xii, 548 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm - Publisher: Montreal [Quebec] ; Ithaca [New York] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [491]-540) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Midwestern beginnings -- Cedar Rapids -- More questions than answers -- Paris -- The world's dizziest newspaper -- Gabardine trenchcoats and late-night trains -- Vienna : a capital without a nation -- "Shirer fly India" -- Mahatma Gandhi -- Termination -- From Paris to Berlin -- The nightmare years -- A change of direction -- An unlikely duo -- Return to Vienna -- "We now take you to London ..." -- Radio news comes of age -- The gathering clouds of war -- A Pandora's box of horrors -- War on the Western Front -- Hitler ascendant -- Auf wiedersehen, Berlin -- Berlin diary -- The price of fame -- Change and confusion -- The banality of evil -- Changing times -- Tides of intolerance -- "Pride ruined the angels" -- Signing off at CBS -- "May his voice be heard again" -- Blacklisted -- End of an affair -- A book for the ages -- "The transientness of our existence" -- An ending and a new beginning -- Memoirs -- A twenty-year-old mind in an eighty-year-old body -- Tenacious to the end -- The final act. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Issued also in electronic format. |
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Subject: | Shirer, William L. (William Lawrence) 1904-1993 Novelists, American 20th century Biography Journalists United States Biography War correspondents United States Biography |
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