Lóránt István, born in Budapest in 1901, who is considered one of ten most important personalities of the history of the new age, emigrated at the age of nineteen. Te most important area of his work became the illustrated press. Several of the German, then English illustrated magazines of the twenties-thirties appeared under his editorship or planning. As the pictorial editor of the Münchner Illustrierte Presse he was the first one who published the photo reportages of André Kertész, Erich Solomon and László Moholy-Nagy. The best tradition of constructivism in pictorial editing and make-up makes the Picture Post and Lilliput, edited during his emigrant period in England, still sought after and acknowledged. He emigrated to the US where his historical works of American Presidents made him an acknowledged historian.
The monograph delving into the more important Hungarian and foreign aspects of his life was prepared by Stefan Lorant based on several hours of interviews and numerous original documents and photographs of Hungarian association ih his possession.