,” whose Wenlock Jakes, a swaggering American journalist, is partly based on Gunther. Jakes, we’re told, once overslept and went to the wrong Balkan capital—a peaceful one rather than a war zone—and nevertheless “cabled off a thousand-word story about barricades in the streets, flaming churches, machine guns answering the rattle of his typewriter as he wrote, a dead child, like a broken doll, spreadeagled in the deserted roadway below his window.
John Gunther and Sheean came from what Cohen calls the country’s “provincial heartland,” in Illinois. They were middle class and didn’t go to élite boarding schools, but they had direct access to great books, in Cohen’s memorable formulation, thanks to the same consumer channels that brought Model Ts to their small American towns.
“Last Call” is as effervescent, for more than four hundred pages, as its winsome and hyperactive characters, and it blends scholarly attention to ideas like psychoanalysis and Wilsonian liberal internationalism with novelistic renderings of these writers’ dizzying trajectories abroad. Group biographies sometimes fail to congeal, but the members of this cohort did in fact have deeply enmeshed lives. The main action jumps from one character to the next across three decades.
Is being an empty vessel an asset to the foreign correspondent? And is having strong beliefs, especially political ones, a detriment to journalistic objectivity? These questions are a major undercurrent of this book, and are most electrically animated in the romantic and professional partnership between John and Frances Gunther.
Might have been nice if you’d given us a photo of HER instead of an old white man. 🙄
“Loyalty to country” even exceeds China in U.S. now, but 30-40 years ago, there were many scenes of hiding fugitives for deceiving the police in movies. All capitalist powerful people have surrendered to China, so the people must know how choose leader!
Interesting photo choice given a woman is the subject of the tweet.
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want to see me without a bra?
should be required that if you post an article here, it should be free for us to read!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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