Deborah Cohen is Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at Northwestern University. She is writing a book about American foreign correspondents who reported from interwar Europe and Asia, including John Gunther, Vincent Sheean, Dorothy Thompson, and H.R. Knickerbocker. (September 2018)
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
by Frank Trentmann
May 25, 2017 issue
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