Last Call at the Hotel Imperial is the extraordinary story of UChicago alumnus John Gunther, H. R. Knickerbocker, UChicago alumnus Vincent Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson. In those tumultuous years, they landed exclusive interviews with Hitler and Mussolini, Nehru and Gandhi, and helped shape what Americans knew about the world. Alongside these backstage glimpses into the halls of power, they left another equally incredible set of records. Living in the heady afterglow of Freud, they subjected themselves to frank, critical scrutiny and argued about love, war, sex, death, and everything in between. A page turner. Raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Deborah Cohen now lives in Chicago, where she's the Richard W. Leopold Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Northwestern University. She writes regularly for the Atlantic on subjects ranging from punk rock to World War I photography. As her family can attest, she spends way too much time at flea markets.
