JOURNALIST'S WIFE

by Lillian T. Mowrer ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 10, 1937

As good reading as has come my way for a long time. The wife of Edgar Mowrer, whose Germany Turns the Clock Back resulted in his being ousted from Germany, has written the story of a European reporter's life from the wife's viewpoint. She is quite a person in her own right, and has a gift for writing entertainingly, humanly, and vividly. She manages to convey a great deal of information about conditions -- social, political, economic -- while never making one feel that she is delivering a lecture on any one of the countries of which she writes. There is no loss of pace or vital interest in looking back, as she recalls their years in Rome, covering the period of the war, and on through the establishment of Mussolini's rÉgime. There are fascinating side excursions, -- Albania, etc. Then Berlin, with the whole background leading up to Hitler and Mowrer's book with its consequences. France, just at the moment of the recent uncertain days, the strikes, Blum's year of power, and his fall. Throughout one feels the personalities of the principals, and a sense of coming to grips with the problems they face, a sharing of those problems and an understanding of incidents and circumstances that were previously news stories. It's good autobiography -- it is good current history -- it is good drama. Timely and yet in no sense ephemeral. One of the best women's autobiographies of the season.

Pub Date: Nov. 10, 1937

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Morrow

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1937

Categories: NONFICTION