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John Gunther. John Gunther (August 30, 1901 – May 29, 1970) was an American journalist and writer. His success came primarily by a series of popular sociopolitical works, known as the "Inside" books (1936–1972), including the best-selling Inside U.S.A. in 1947. However, he is now best known for his memoir Death Be Not Proud (1949), on the ...
Publication date. May 1947. Pages. 979. ISBN. 978-1-56584-358-5. Inside U.S.A. is a nonfiction book by John Gunther, first published in 1947 and one of that year's best-selling nonfiction books in the United States. It describes the author's observations during 13 months of travel through the then-48 U.S. states beginning in November 1944.
Author John Gunther, who traveled the world, was host of this series and narrated it. The show ranged "from Manhattan to the Himalayas in search of program material". Subjects of episodes went beyond geographic locations to include topics such as jazz music and space travel, leading Gunther to summarize the series as "inside everywhere".
John Gunther: Inside Russia Today: 1959 Cornelius Ryan: The Longest Day: 1960 William L. Shirer: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: 1961 John Toland: But Not in Shame: The Six Months After Pearl Harbor: 1962 Seymour Freidin: The Forgotten People: An Eye Witness Account of the People in the Iron Curtain Countries of Europe from 1945-1961: ...
President Joe Biden secretly gave Ukraine permission to use American weapons to strike inside Russia, two American officials said Thursday, a U-turn that Kyiv’s allies hope helps turn the tide ...
1949. Death Be Not Proud is a 1949 memoir by American journalist John Gunther. The book describes the decline and death of Gunther's son, Johnny, due to a brain tumor. The title comes from Holy Sonnet X by John Donne, also known from its first line as the poem Death Be Not Proud. At the time the book was published in the late 1940s, memoirs ...
June 26, 2023 at 12:13 PM. Fighters of the Wagner Group mercenary army stand on a tank in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on Saturday. (Stringer/Reuters) (Stringer . / reuters) Russian ...
In the days before the attack, the small lakeside town of just over 11,000 residents had hosted a sailing competition for teenagers from across Russia, earning a rare War comes home to Russia in ...