Details

Title

Inside Europe

Author

Gunther, John

Place of Publication

London

Publisher

Hamish Hamilton

Date of Publication

1937 Show more1937-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
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Collection

L.M. Montgomery Institute. Ryrie-Campbell Collection.

Donor

Donated by Donna Jane Campbell.

Note

John Gunther was a well-known Chicago journalist who spent most of 1924 to 1936 traveling in and reporting on the rise of regimes and tensions across the continent. His 'Inside Europe' became the first in a series of 'Inside' studies of places around the world including Inside U.S.A (1947), Inside Africa (1955), Inside South America (1967), and others. Montgomery's copy of Inside Europe from 1937 was likely one of the versions slightly updated from its original publication in 1934. Gunther's books offered a comprehensive survey of each place, complete with relevant statistics and interviews of average citizens, leaders, businesspeople, and politicians. A review from 'The Atlantic' in 1936 noted that "Observing Europe from across the Atlantic in the fourth decade of the twentieth century, Americans are perplexed at the spectacle of a continent torn by jealousies, devoured by hatreds, split into rival factions, staggering perilously along the brink of war. To the casual observer, the headline reader, the spectacle makes little sense, and he is all too apt to dismiss it, smugly, as a form of collective insanity. It is the chief merit of this admirable and exciting volume that it rearranges the furious jumble of hate and fear into an understandable, if not orderly, pattern." In 1947, Gunther would publish the best-selling memoir 'Death Be Not Proud,' the story of his son's illness and death from a brain tumor. Browse the full text of 'Inside Europe' here.

Genre

book

Call Number(s)

LMMI - SMACD COLL 003