Hooked on Books Book Group: The Dragon from Chicago: the Untold story of an American reporter in Nazi Germany by Pamela Toler

We will discuss The Dragon from Chicago by Pamela Toler. Registration is preferred, but walk-ins are welcome. Copies of the book can be checked out at the Service Center a month prior to the discussion.

The Dragon from Chicago: the Untold story of an American reporter in Nazi Germany by Pamela Toler

At a time when women reporters rarely wrote front-page stories and her male colleagues saw a powerful unmarried woman as a 'freak,' Sigrid Schultz served as the Chicago Tribune's Berlin bureau chief and primary foreign correspondent for Central Europe from 1925 to January 1941. Schultz witnessed Hitler's climb to power and was one of the first reporters--male or female--to warn American readers of the growing threat of the Nazi regime in Germany. In The Dragon from Chicago, historian Pamela D. Toler draws on extensive archival research to unearth the largely forgotten story of Schultz's years courageously reporting the news from Berlin, from the revolts of 1919 through the Nazi rise to power and Allied air raids over Berlin in 1941.