Title Egon Erwin Kisch, the raging reporter : a bio-anthology / [compiled by] Harold B. Segel

Published West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 378 pages) : illustrations Summary Egon Erwin Kisch (1885-1948) is widely regarded as one of the most outstanding journalists of the twentieth century. He is also credited with virtually defining reportage as a form of literary art in which accuracy of observation and fidelity to facts combine with creative narrative. Born in Prague under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kisch began his career as a crime reporter for local newspapers. He saw combat in Serbia as a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army in World War I, led an abortive left-wing coup d'etat in Vienna in 1918, and became famous in the German-speaking world as der rasende Reporter (the raging reporter) when he exposed the attempted cover-up of a case of treason in high places that rocked the Habsburg Empire on the eve of World War I He visited North Africa, the Soviet Union, Central Asia, Australia, China, and the United States, where he traveled from one coast to the other as an ordinary seaman, made friends with Charlie Chaplin and Upton Sinclair, and commented with wit and irony on American life Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Kisch, Egon Erwin, 1885-1948 SUBJECT Kisch, Egon Erwin, 1885-1948 fast Subject Journalists -- Czechoslovakia -- Biography Journalists -- Germany -- Biography Journalists -- Germany -- Biography Journalists -- Czechoslovakia -- Biography HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century. Journalists Czechoslovakia Germany Genre/Form Biographies Form Electronic book Author Segel, Harold B., 1930- LC no. 97010194 ISBN 9781612490649 1612490646

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