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At Agadir in Morocco, reports Peter Kolosimo, the French captain Lafanechere "discovered a complete arsenal of hunting weapons including five hundred double-edged axes weighing seventeen and a half pounds, i.e. twenty times as heavy as would be convenient for modern man. Apart from the question of weight, to handle the axe at all one would need to have hands of a size appropriate to a giant with a stature of at least 13 feet." 2 (See Australian Giants; La Tene; South American Giants) The most avidly engaged expatriates were the foreign correspondents, like Gunther, whose job was to translate European news for American audiences. International journalism was thriving in the U.S., as papers such as the Chicago Daily News and the Philadelphia Public Ledger built up their own bureaus abroad rather than relying on wire services. Gunther spent his 20s and 30s dashing between European chancelleries, deciphering coup attempts and revolutions, trying to explain the rise of fascism and the consolidation of Soviet Communism. In addition to the "Inside" series and related volumes, Gunther wrote eight novels and three biographies. The most notable of them are Bright Nemesis, The Troubled Midnight, Roosevelt in Retrospect (published in 1950) and Eisenhower, a biography of the famous general released in 1952, the year that Dwight Eisenhower was elected President. In addition, Gunther published several books for young readers, including a biography of Alexander the Great in 1953, and Meet Soviet Russia, a two-volume adaptation of Inside Russia Today in 1962. For more than 30 years, Mr. Gunther was looked to by stay‐at‐home public for his live ly, informed descriptions of the world at large. He traveled more miles, crossed more bor ders, interviewed more states men, wrote more books and sold more copies than any other single journalist of his time. At least 15 of his books were translated into more than 90 languages.

The fact that so many of the taboo-shredding American memoirists had lived in Europe wasn’t a coincidence. They had seen up close the battle among fascism, communism, and democracy playing out after the First World War. Inevitably, they took sides and came to rethink their place in the world. This doesn’t accord with the stereotype of the Lost Generation, its members drinking away their anomie in Parisian cafés. But as Brooke Blower noted in her insightful Becoming Americans in Paris (2011), that is because our conception of the Lost Generation is too limited. They weren’t simply running away; they were, as John Dos Passos put it, running toward “the whole wide world.” a b "Guide to the John Gunther Papers 1935–1967". University of Chicago Library. 2006 . Retrieved April 18, 2013. Why … should Texas have what seem to be the prettiest girls in the world? … Walk across the campus at Austin, or roam the downtown streets of Dallas; there are more Miss Americas per square yard than anywhere else in the country per square mile.” Gunther’s unpublishable book was a memoir: an account of the death, in 1947, of his 17-year-old son, Johnny, from a brain tumor. Gunther had started writing while the experience of Johnny’s illness was still raw, finishing the book in a few weeks, six months after his son’s death. He’d set out with the idea of a privately circulated memoir, the sort of volume of remembrances printed in a few hundred copies that parents of soldiers killed in action sent to friends and relations. But as he finished the manuscript, he began to think it should be published for a wider audience. a b "Gunther, Frances Fineman. Papers, 1915-1963: A Finding Aid". Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Harvard University Library/ Radcliffe College. September 1991. Archived from the original on July 3, 2018 . Retrieved December 2, 2012.

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Cuthbertso, Ken (October 2002). Inside: The Biography of John Gunther. Open Road Integrated Media, Incorporated. p.11. ISBN 9780759232884. Gunther intended to write a companion book, to be titled Inside Washington, focused on the nation-scale problems, personalities, and institutions of the U.S. He never completed the second book, because of the amount that would be required and because he could not decide how best to coordinate the publication timing with the quadrennial cycle of presidential elections. A revised edition of Inside U.S.A. was released in 1951. [5] He later continued his "Inside" series with three more books: Inside Africa in 1955, Inside Russia Today in 1958, and Inside Europe Today in 1961. [2] A 50th anniversary edition of Inside U.S.A. was published in 1997 ( ISBN 978-1-56584-358-5). [20] I was ravenously interested in human beings,” he said. “I never really got a big scoop in my life, and the little ones got were just plain accidents.I wasn't one of those reporters who managed to be on the scene when things happened. I was generally somewhere else. Matter of fact, I never really gave a damn about spot news. The idea of beating The Asso ciated Press by six minutes bored me silly.” John Gunther, journalist and author of the best‐selling “In side” books, died yesterday at the Harkness Pavilion of the Columbia‐Presbyterian Medical Center after a brief illness. He was 68 years old and lived at 1 East End Avenue.

Inside U.S.A. was the Book-of-the-Month Club main selection for June 1947 and ranked third among the best-selling nonfiction books in the U.S. for the full year. [17] [18] Follow-on works [ edit ] Frances’s afterword was the most personal and unabashedly emotional of the three parts. She wrote about her relationship with her son, her attempt to “create of him a newer kind of human being: an aware person, without fear, and with love.” To remake a war-ravaged world required people who cared about others, and Frances had started with her son. She’d reared him to become a cooperative rather than competitive person. But now that he was dead, she was consumed by guilt. She felt remorse about sending Johnny to boarding school; she regretted the divorce: “I wished we had loved Johnny more when he was alive.”A tribe of giants survives in the Sudan, but apparently little has been written about them. In his Inside Africa, John Gunther de-scribes them as a Nilotic peoples who "have spread their virile blood far afield, as witness the Masai in Kenya and the giant Watutsi 3 in Ruanda-Urundi, who are cousins to the Hamitic Sudanese." 4 An example of their gigantic but very slender stature may be seen in Manute Bol, the seven-foot-seven-inch pro basketball giant, who hails from this region. Slim as he still looks, Bol has put on quite a bit of weight since his rookie year in the NBA. One sports writer jokingly wrote that he has now "added enough poundage to require at least two pinstripes on his pajamas." a b Lakin, Matt (May 27, 2012). " 'Ugliest city' insult prompts beautification efforts in Knoxville". Knoxville News Sentinel. To the task of writing “In side Europe,” “Inside Russia,” “Inside Africa” and all the oth er “Inside” books that brought him considerable fame and re spectable fortune, John Gunther brought a breathless curiosity, sharp ears and eyes for the offbeat fact, a consuming vital ity, a gregarious charm and a crusader's zeal to tell his read ers what he thought they might not know about other people and other places. Of course even by this point there were independent countries on the continent. You will get to feel the presence of men like Nasser and Haile Selassie, fully knowing that they're at the head of a new age.

The Gunthers had two children: Judy, who died in 1929 before the age of 1, and John Jr. (Johnny), who was born in 1929 and died in 1947 of a brain tumor. The Gunthers divorced in 1944. [3] a b Cuthbertson, Ken (October 2002). Inside: The Biography of John Gunther. p.239. ISBN 9780759232884. According to Michael Bloch, Gunther enjoyed a same-sex relationship in the 1930s in Vienna with the future Leader of the British Labour Party, Hugh Gaitskell. [7] The 1930's were the bub bling, blazing days of Ameri can foreign correspondents in Europe,” Mr. Gunther said. “This was before journalism became institutionalized. We correspondents were strictly on our own. We avoided offi cial handouts. We were scav engers, buzzards, out to get the news, no matter whose wings got clipped.”John Gunther, (born Aug. 30, 1901, Chicago—died May 29, 1970, New York City), journalist and author who became famous for his series of sociopolitical books describing and interpreting for American readers various regions of the world, beginning with Inside Europe (1936). One of the things that makes it so alive is Gunther’s curiosity about his own country; he knew Latin America, he knew Europe, he knew Asia, but he didn’t know America. “The United States, like a cobra, lay before me, seductive, terrifying and immense,” he wrote. “‘Inside U.S.A.’ was the hardest task I ever undertook.” He was yet again an outsider, looking in. “Not only was I trying to write for the man from Mars; I was one.”