Knickerbocker, James Vincent Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson, are bound together by “a common cause: the conviction that the ideal of journalistic objectivity revered by their elders and editors had to yield to a different, more personal sort of reporting. The correspondents, John and Frances Gunther, H. “THEY BEGAN THE decade by reporting the story, but by 1939, they were the story,” writes Deborah Cohen, describing the five American foreign correspondents at the heart of her new book, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War.
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