Sigrid Schultz
Building Blocks
I’ve lived in Chicago since the fall of 1980, but I never noticed that the street side of the Tribune Tower is embedded with stones from famous buildings around the world until recently. The trigger for me was correspondence from Sigrid Schultz detailing her successes and failures in acquiring, authenticating, and shipping stones to the…
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Reporting from Weimar Berlin: More Than Just the Nazis
Last Saturday, I spoke about The Dragon From Chicago to an enthusiastic audience at History Camp 2024 in Boston.* At the end, a member of the audience stopped me and asked if Sigrid Schultz reported on anything besides politics. The short answer is yes, indeed she did. In fact, at one point, Joseph Pierson, then…
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It’s Publication Day for The Dragon From Chicago!
On May 8, 2020, I announced here on the Margins, after months of hinting, that I had a contract with Beacon Press for a new book about Sigrid Schultz, Berlin bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune. I expected to finish the book in two years. *Cue manic laughter* Four years and a bit later, The…
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