03662cam a22004818i 4500 115534 115534 21125816 BJBSDDR 20230411090731.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 190808s2020 nyu b 001 0ceng 2019034717 9781541699335 (hardcover) 1541699335 (hardcover) DLC eng rda DLC eng pcc n-us--- PN 4871 C846f 2020 070.922 Cott, Nancy F., 19165 1945- Fighting words : the bold American journalists who brought the world home between the wars / Nancy F. Cott. First edition. New York : Basic Books, 2020. ix, 403 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Original rover boy -- Blue-eyed tornado -- Luckiest young upstart -- The freest man on any newspaper -- With her whole heart -- Moscow passage -- Shadows over Europe -- Two big books -- Antifascism loud and clear -- War outside and war inside -- The age of adjustment "At a time when print media reigned supreme and newspapers were legion, Dorothy Thompson, John Gunther, Vincent Sheean, and Rayna Raphaelson Prohme impulsively left their homes to reinvent themselves as international journalists and adopt the power of the press as their own. In Fighting Words, acclaimed historian Nancy Cott follows these four largely unknown young Americans to reveal how foreign journalism shaped America's sense of its place in the world. Dorothy, John, Vincent, and Rayna serve as a counter to the devil-may-care jazz babies of the 1920s who scandalized their elders to no purpose beyond frivolity. Instead, the four directly confronted major political challenges that still reverberate today- democracy versus authoritarianism, global responsibility versus isolationism, press objectivity versus propaganda. They revealed the political instability that circled most of the globe as a legacy of the redrawing of world order after World War I. By the early 1930s, unlike Americans at home fixated on the Depression and New Deal, they were in the antifascist vanguard, well aware of Hitler's impending menace. At the same time, they were actively rethinking relationships between men and women. All four navigated sexual affairs and frictions, marriages and divorces. Their experiences traced the development not only of international journalism but also the making of the modern self at a time when the value of sexual freedom grated against traditional morality. A group biography of four extraordinary Americans abroad, and a paean to a golden age of journalism, Fighting Words shows how these young cosmopolitans reshaped America's sense of its own place in the world"-- Provided by publisher. 19768 Thompson, Dorothy, 1893-1961 19769 Gunther, John, 1901-1970 19770 Sheean, Vincent, 1899-1975. 19771 Prohme, Rayna, 1894-1927 Foreign correspondents United States Biography. Corresponsales extranjeros Estados Unidos Biografías 2161 Journalism United States History 20th century. Periodismo Estados Unidos Historia Siglo XX 6552 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2021-11-18 0 PN 4871 C846f 2020 00000150190 2021-11-18 00:00:00 1 2021-11-18 BK