About the Book: Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: the Reporters Who Took on a
World at War
A fresh, fast-paced history ... Riveting MAYA JASANOFF
the celebrated journalists of the lost generation were voracious, reckless,
promiscuous, funny, and drunk, and they were also shrewd and deeply political
... As intimate and gripping as a novel ... I read it all at once. I couldnt
stop ... Brilliant LARISSA MACFARQUHAR
They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As
cub reporters in the 1920s, they roamed across a war-ravaged world, sometimes
perched atop mules on wooden saddles, sometimes gliding through countries in