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Thompson’s reporting from Europe, with relevant warnings about the fragility of western civilization, inspired her husband, Nobel Prize-winner Sinclair Lewis, to write his 1936 (and 2016) bestseller “It Can’t Happen Here,” a satirical depiction of a fascist’s rise to power in America. Before her death, Dorothy Thompson advocated for ...
Dorothy Thompson, a prominent journalist, political commentator and a leading opponent of Hitler and 1930s fascism, was born July 9, 1893 in Lancaster, New York. Her mother, Margaret, died in 1901 and her father, Peter, a Methodist pastor, remarried two years later. Dorothy fought frequently with her stepmother, Elizabeth Abbott Thompson, and ...
11 de jan. de 2024 · Art by Colin Mahoney. Source photo of Dorothy Thomspon: Library of Congress On the morning of August 25, 1934, the American journalist Dorothy Thompson was taking breakfast in her room at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin when she received a letter from the Gestapo. “In view of your numerous anti-German publications in the American press,” Thompson was informed, “the German authoriti
Dorothy Thompson. Dorothy Thopmson ( Lancaster (Nueva York), 9 de julio de 1893- Lisboa, 30 de enero de 1961) fue una periodista y feminista estadounidense. 1 . Hija de un ministro metodista, estudió en el Lewis Institute de Chicago y en la Universidad de Siracusa, donde se graduó y donde tomó parte en el movimiento sufragista. 1 2 .
13 de ago. de 2021 · By the 1950s, Dorothy was weary and out of sympathy with the society in which she lived, and she longed for the world of simple Christian values in which she had grown up. One friend said, “Politically, she was like a great ship left stranded on the beach after the tide had gone out.”.
Geboren wurde Dorothy Thompson als Tochter von Margaret und Peter Thompson. Ihr Vater war ein britischer Methodistenprediger, der nach dem frühen Tod seiner Frau – ihre Tochter war erst elf Jahre alt – schnell wieder heiratete. Da Dorothy mit ihrer Stiefmutter nicht zurecht kam, wurde sie zu zwei Schwestern des Vaters nach Chicago geschickt.
Dorothy Thompson. Dorothy Thompson (July 9, 1893 - January 30, 1961) was an American journalist who gained international celebrity when she became the first journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934. In 1939, Time magazine called her one of the two most influential women in America, second only to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
