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Shirer, William Lawrence
(b. 23 February 1904 in Chicago, Illinois; d.
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28 December 1993 in Boston, Massachusetts), journalist and radio commentator whose newspaper dispatches and pioneering radio broadcasts from Berlin, Germany, and other European capitals in the 1930s alerted the American public to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi menace, and whose postwar book detailing the history of the Third Reich was an international best-seller.
A child of the American Midwest when that region was at its most insular and parochial, Shirer became a cultivated man of the world, fluent in four languages, well-versed in food and drink, and the personification of the fabled foreign correspondent, who had been everywhere, known everyone, and covered the most important stories of his day.
He was the middle child and first son born to Seward Smith Shirer, an assistant U.S. district attorney, and Bessie Josephine Tanner Shirer, a homemaker. He idolized his father both as a parent and as a lover of boo