Amerikan Dream: A Transatlantic Cultural Logbook from Postwar Germany to Trumpist America - Hardcover
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Amerikan Dream: A Transatlantic Cultural Logbook from Postwar Germany to Trumpist America
While originating in the author's experience as a German and American citizen (double citizenship), the book is not an autobiography. It combines narrative accounts, scholarly literary and art historical commentary, as well as critical political opinions. At its core it is focused on readings of German and American literature, art, film and popular culture in the context of the radically changing...
The author, born in East Prussia in 1941, was too young to consciously experience the Nazi era and World War II, but, like the rest of his generation, he remains haunted by an unseen monster for a lifetime. The core of his family survived and resettled in the West. Attending an elite 'humanist Gymnasium, ' then the University of Hamburg, he experienced the best, as well as the failures, of...
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