AMERICAN CASSANDRA: THE LIFE OF DOROTHY THOMPSON

"Those who remember Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961) know she was once married to Sinclair Lewis, and was a journalist of high influence and repute in her own time. As Peter Kurth's sensationally good biography reveals, Thompson was much more: an opinion-maker, international celebrity and very real power behind several thrones - pushing and nagging the great, the near-great and the inept to ensure the survival of those humanitarian ideals for which she tirelessly campaigned and more than once risked her life. Kurth's vividly detailed and dramatic portrayal of her life fully compensates for the memoirs she planned but never lived to write. He shows her at her best and worst and, without insisting, leaves us persuaded that here was a one-of-a-kind incarnation of energy, honesty and commitment; a woman we must not forget." -- USA Today