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[email protected] STRAIGHT RECORD AND THE PAPER TRAIL: FROM DEPRESSION REPORTERS TO FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS BY MAGDALENA BOGACKA-RODE A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Center Faculty in English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, The City University of New York 2014 ii Copyright 2014 Bogacka-Rode, Magdalena All rights reserved. iii This manuscript has been read and accepted for the Graduate Faculty in English in satisfaction of the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Jane C. Marcus ______________________ _______________________________________________ Date Chair of Examining Committee Mario DiGangi _______________________ ______________________________________________ Date Executive Officer Jane C. Marcus Mario DiGangi Michele Wallace Supervisory Committee THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK iv STRAIGHT RECORD AND THE PAPER TRAIL: FROM DEPRESSION REPORTERS TO FOREGIN CORRESPONDENTS Abstract By Magdalena Bogacka-Rode Adviser: Professor Jane C. Marcus Straight Record and the Paper Trail: From Depression Reporters to Foreign Correspondents engages with Martha Gellhorn’s The Face of War (1959), Virginia Cowles’ Looking for Trouble (1941) and Josephine Herbst’s The Starched Blue Sky of Spain and Other Memoirs (1991) as documentaries of struggle.