Fighting Words
The Bold American Journalists Who Brought the World Home Between the Wars
Published on 17. March 2020
416 pages
978-1-5416-9931-1 (ISBN)
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From a Harvard historian, this riveting portrait of four trailblazing American journalists highlights the power of the press in the interwar period.
In the fragile peace following the Great War, a surprising number of restless young Americans abandoned their homes and set out impulsively to see the changing world. In Fighting Words, Nancy F. Cott follows four who pursued global news -- from contested Palestine to revolutionary China, from Stalin's Moscow to Hitler's Berlin. As foreign correspondents, they became players in international politics and shaped Americans' awareness of critical interwar crises, the spreading menace of European fascism, and the likelihood of a new war -- while living romantic and sexual lives as modern and as hazardous as their journalism.
An indelible portrayal of a tumultuous era with resonance for our own, Fighting Words is essential reading on the power of the press and the growth of an American sense of international responsibility.
In the fragile peace following the Great War, a surprising number of restless young Americans abandoned their homes and set out impulsively to see the changing world. In Fighting Words, Nancy F. Cott follows four who pursued global news -- from contested Palestine to revolutionary China, from Stalin's Moscow to Hitler's Berlin. As foreign correspondents, they became players in international politics and shaped Americans' awareness of critical interwar crises, the spreading menace of European fascism, and the likelihood of a new war -- while living romantic and sexual lives as modern and as hazardous as their journalism.
An indelible portrayal of a tumultuous era with resonance for our own, Fighting Words is essential reading on the power of the press and the growth of an American sense of international responsibility.
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Nancy F. Cott is a professor of American history at Harvard University and the former director of the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is the author of six previous books, including Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- List of Maps
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1 Original Rover Boy
- CHAPTER 2 Blue-Eyed Tornado
- CHAPTER 3 Luckiest Young Upstart
- CHAPTER 4 The Freest Man on Any Newspaper
- CHAPTER 5 With Her Whole Heart
- CHAPTER 6 Moscow Passage
- CHAPTER 7 Shadows Over Europe
- CHAPTER 8 Two Big Books
- CHAPTER 9 Antifascism Loud and Clear
- CHAPTER 10 War Outside and War Inside
- CHAPTER 11 The Age of Adjustment
- Coda
- Acknowledgments
- Discover More
- About the Author
- Permissions
- Abbreviations Used in Notes
- Locations of Archives Cited in Notes
- Praise for "Fighting Words
- Notes
