Book of the Month: Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power
Title: Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Publication date: 11/8/2011 Pages: 512 Overview: Born in the 1890s on opposite sides of the Atlantic, friends for more than forty years, Dorothy Thompson and Rebecca West lived strikingly parallel lives that placed them at the center of the social and historical upheavals of the twentieth century. In Dangerous Ambition, Susan Hertog chronicles the separate but intertwined journeys of these two remarkable women writers, who achieved unprecedented fame and influence at tremendous personal cost. American Dorothy Thompson was the first female head of a European news bureau, a columnist and commentator with a tremendous following whom Time magazine once ranked alongside Eleanor Roosevelt as the most influential woman in America. Rebecca West, an Englishwoman at home wherever genius was spoken, blazed a trail for herself as a journal...