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John Gunther

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Born: August 29 1901

Died: 2828 05 19701970

John Gunther was one of the best known and most admired journalists of his day, and his series of "Inside" books, starting with Inside Europe in 1936, were immensely popular profiles of the major world powers. One critic noted that it was Gunther's special gift to "unite the best qualities of the newspaperman and the historian." It was a gift that readers responded to enthusiastically. The "Inside" books sold 3,500,000 copies over a period of thirty years.

While publicly a bon vivant and modest celebrity, Gunther in his private life suffered disappointment and tragedy. He and Frances Fineman, whom he married in 1927, had a daughter who died four months after her birth in 1929. The Gunthers divorced in 1944. In 1947, their beloved son Johnny died after a long, heartbreaking fight with brain cancer. Gunther wrote his classic memoir Death Be Not Proud, published in 1949, to commemorate the courage and spirit of this extraordinary boy. Gunther remarried in 1948, and he and his second wife, Jane Perry Vandercook, adopted a son.

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John Gunther

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Books from John Gunther

Death Be Not Proud

Alexander the Great

Julius Caesar

Inside U.S.A

Inside Europe (War Edition)

Inside Russia Today

The Philosophy Of The Revolution

Inside Asia

گردونه تاریخ جلد 11 : جولیوس سزار

John Gunther's Inside Australia

O livro da juventude 1964

Inside Europe Today

Alexander the Great

Meet Soviet Russia Book 1

The Riddle of MacArthur: Japan, Korea, and the Far East

Twelve Cities

Inside South America

Inside U.S.A.

Procession

Eisenhower: the Man and the Symbol