There’s the Black preacher who reached millions on the airwaves before the civil rights movement…The woman who tried to warn the public of Hitler’s rising power…And the talk show host who first proved that outrage sells. In 1939, Time Magazine called Dorothy Thompson a woman who “thinks, talks and sleeps world problems — and scares men half to death.” Thompson was a foreign correspondent in Germany in the years leading up to World War 2, and she broadcast to millions of listeners around the world.