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Title: Before the Deluge : Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, A by Otto Friedrich ISBN: 0-06-092679-1 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 22 November, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Scatterbrained
Comment: I felt that this book skipped around too much. It had many interesting facts but there was no flow. When the author should have stayed on one topic and developed it, he moved onto another. There was poor closure on some topics and others were not properly introduced to the reader.
If you want a book with large quantities of interesting information but little organization or explanation, this is your book.
Rating: 4
Summary: There were maps on the inner cover, front and back...
Comment: The reader below who bemoans (understandably) the lack of maps in this edition can blame the publisher; there were excellent maps on the inner cover, front and back, of the hardcover edition. The book is an excellent introduction to the Weimar years.
Rating: 5
Summary: Aanecdotal, biographical and fascinating
Comment: To many, calling a book "anecdotal" is to condemn it as lacking in historical rigor. I disagree. To me, being anecdotal is synonomous with being readable---after all, who wants to be bored when reading for pleasure?
Ralph Waldo Emermson said that "there is no history, only biography." This book paints a portrait of Berlin by assembling a collage of personalities who lived there during the 1920's and 30's and who were prominent in film (Marlene Deitrich and Peter Lorre), art, music, literature (Isherwood from "Cabaret" is one, Brecht is another), science (Einstein for one), crime (serial killers-a sign of cultural decline) and ultimately politics (Goering air hero and drug addict, Goebbels the novelist and manipulator, and Hitler the artist and underestimated Southern corporal)---for politics is what ulimately dominated Germany after 1933.
Some will find the portrait uncomfortable--after all, Hitler was a moderate leftist and his Berlin cronies (Gregor Strasser and Goebbels) were far left. His supporters were the unemployed, college students, women, and teachers--- traditional stalwarts of the Democratic Party in the United States. This book will tell you how they came to support the National Socialist German Workers' Party---The N.S. otherwise known as the NA---(N)--ZI's (S's).
Overall, this book is just a good read. It covers a broad range of topics, is filled with interesting anecdotes, and will have something which should interest just about every reader.
Enjoy it.
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Title: The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin by Barbara Ulrich, Jerry Stahl ISBN: 0922915768 Publisher: Feral House Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider by Peter Gay ISBN: 0393322394 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Berlin Cabaret by Peter Jelavich ISBN: 0674067622 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's by Otto Friedrich ISBN: 0520209494 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.05 |
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Title: Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin by Mel Gordon ISBN: 092291558X Publisher: Feral House Pub. Date: 30 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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