The dragon from Chicago : the untold story of an American reporter in Nazi Germany
(2024)
By:
Toler, Pamela D.
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
940.548173/TOLER,P
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Boston : Beacon Press, [2024]
DESCRIPTION
272 pages : 8 pages unnumbered plates ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780807063064, 0807063061 :, 0807063061, 9780807063064
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"A captivating look at Sigrid Schultz-one of the earliest reporters to warn Americans of the rising threat of the Nazi regime"--
CONTENTS
Prologue: "That dragon from Chicago" --
A trilingual child --
Stranded --
Enemy alien --
"How to meet a revolution" --
Finding her own people --
Training of a foreign correspondent --
Musical chairs --
Front-page girls, stunt reporters, sob sisters, and mob sisters --
"Right man" for the job --
On the job --
Love and loneliness --
"the fascisti are very restless" --
When putsch comes to shove --
Let the games begin --
AKA John Dickson --
Never entirely at peace --
On the air from Berlin --
War seemed inevitable --
Berlin blues --
Going home --
Sick and tired --
"A mild little war mongering tour" --
From foreign correspondent to war correspondent --
Bearing witness --
War crimes --
Epilogue