Dispatches and Dictators: Ralph Barnes for the Herald Tribune
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (700 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0870715461 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Barbara Mahoney's biography chronicles Barnes's short life and brilliant career and provides insights into the events leading to World War II.. From Mussolini's Italy, Stalin's Russia, and Hitler's Germany, Oregon native Ralph Barnes reported firsthand on the events of the 1930s for readers of the New York Herald Tribune
With persistence and unusually keen insight, Ralph Barnes reported on Fascism, Communism, Nazism, and the events leading to World War II. Barnes has been praised by colleagues and competitors alike as one of the best reporters of that pivotal era. Barnes's story also offers an intimate glimpse into one family's experience with the risks, hardships, and separations that belie the romantic popular image of the foreign correspondent. From the Publisher "Dispatches and Dictators" uncovers the fascinating story of Oregon native Ralph Barnes, the New York Herald Tribune's European correspondent, who served in Paris, Rome, Moscow, Berlin, and London in the years between the two world wars. Stalin confined Barnes to Moscow for disclosing that millions were dying during the Soviet collectivization of agriculture, and Hitler expelled Barnes from Germany for predicting the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union. But since his death in the 19
"Fabulous Biography" according to William Kohne. Barbara Mahoney has captured the essence of time and person. Most people will find Ralph Barnes an unfamiliar name in the context of pre-war America, but Dr. Mahoney, right from the beginning provides the reader with a reason to continue reading, melding the importance of the period with the accomplishments of the man: "He lived and reported in an era unsurpassed for its complexity and peril. His story is its story."Three stories are harmoniously integrated into a
Mahoney lives in Wilsonville, Oregon. A historian with a special interest in twentieth-century European history, Barbara Mahoney discovered Ralph Barnes while she was working at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, his alma mater.