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Pamela Toler's "The Dragon from Chicago. The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany"
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the historian Dr Pamela Toler chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting The Dragon from Chicago. The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany, the biography of Sigrid Schultz, the Chicago Tribune’s bureau chief in Berlin during Hitler’s rise to power.
Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:
Why Pamela Toler chose The Dragon from Chicago as the biography’s title
Why Sigrid Schultz’s story is still so relevant today
How Pamela responded to gaps and misinformation in the historical record
How she…
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