Mark Lynton History Prize (Columbia School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation)

Goldsmith Prize (Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize (Phi Beta Kappa)

One of the Best Books of the Year —

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Vanity Fair

“As intimate and gripping as a novel – I read it all at once, I couldn’t stop – this brilliant book vividly conveys what it felt like to live through the shocking crises of the thirties and forties as they were happening, when nearly anything could happen next.”

– Larissa MacFarquhar, author of Strangers Drowning

“Ms. Cohen…takes their story to a new level with prodigious research and sparkling prose. The book is a model of its kind.”

— Ed Kosner, Wall Street Journal

“Last Call” is as effervescent, for more than four hundred pages, as its winsome and hyperactive characters, and it blends scholarly attention to ideas like psychoanalysis and Wilsonian liberal internationalism with novelistic renderings of these writers’ dizzying trajectories abroad.”

— Krithika Varagur, New Yorker

“This is a great book about great and flawed people caught up in a world going mad."

— Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune

“Cohen’s latest book is a masterclass in playing with scale: individual lives and global affairs, the personal and the public brought together with each informing the other."

— Thomas Sojka, Los Angeles Review of Books

“Luminous, extensively researched and beautifully written… Deborah Cohen brilliantly captures the complicated personal and professional lives of that period’s four most influential journalists.”

— BookPage (starred review)

“Cohen’s narrative reads like an Alan Furst novel, full of close calls and intrigue….An exceptional book of cultural history that makes one long for the days of teletype, booze, spies, and scoops.”

— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Brilliantly conceived, beautifully written, this is a daring new history of the world between the wars. Cohen's revelatory book shows how, in the age of extremes, the lines blurred between the personal and the political, biography and history. The work of a truly original historian. Unforgettable."

– Adam Tooze, author of Shutdown