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Deborah Cohen

The globetrotting reporters of Cohen's "Last Call" were in Vienna in 1934 when the battle between social democracy and fascism was being joined. Left to right are: John Gunther, M.W. Fodor, Martha Fodor, Frances Gunther, Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis.

Historian Deborah Cohen’s latest book, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World War, recently received two awards: the Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard University, and the prestigious Lynton History Prize from Columbia University. Cohen is...