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Meet The Author - Pamela D. Toler

"The Dragon From Chicago"
2024-08-19 19:00:00 2024-08-19 20:00:00 America/Chicago Meet The Author - Pamela D. Toler Highland Park Public Library - Lower-Level Meeting Room/Auditorium

Monday, August 19
7:00pm - 8:00pm

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Highland Park Public Library

Lower-Level Meeting Room/Auditorium

Toler discusses her new book "The Dragon from Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany" that tells the story of the "Chicago Tribune's" Berlin bureau chief Sigrid Schultz.

Pamela D. Toler discusses her new book The Dragon from Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany. 

The book chronicles the story of Sigrid Schultz, the Chicago Tribune's Berlin bureau chief and primary foreign correspondent for Central Europe from 1925 to January 1941. Schultz witnessed Hitler’s rise to power and was one of the first reporters—male or female—to warn American readers of the growing dangers of Nazism. Drawing on extensive archival research to uncover this largely forgotten story in women's history, Toler reveals how Schultz pulled back the curtain on how the Nazis misreported the news to their own people – and today, how we might reclaim truth in an era marked by the spread of disinformation and claims of “fake news.”

In conversation with noted book discussion leader Judy Levin.

Books will be for sale and the event will conclude with a book signing.

Armed with a PhD in history, a well-thumbed deck of library cards, and a large bump of curiosity, author, speaker, and historian Pamela D. Toler translates history for a popular audience. She goes beyond the familiar boundaries of American history to tell stories from other parts of the world as well as history from the other side of the battlefield, the gender line, or the color bar. Toler is the author of ten books of popular history for children and adults, including  Heroines of Mercy Street: Real Nurses of the Civil War,  Women Warriors:  An Unexpected History, and The Dragon From Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany.  Her work has appeared in American Scholar, Aramco World, Calliope, History Channel Magazine, MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Ms., Time.com and The Washington Post and has been featured in National Geographic.

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