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Title: Father/Land: A Personal Search for the New Germany by Frederick Kempe ISBN: 0-253-21525-0 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent introduction
Comment: I have used this as the closing text in college courses on modern Germany with great success. It captures the nuances of contemporary Germany rather well: a continuing obsession with order and precision, immigration, a fascination with America, reunification, a new generation's coming to grips with a horrific and inescapable past, and learning to exercise a measured assertiveness in a world still wary of German power. To do all this in such a (relatively) small book and nonetheless remain highly readable is an achievement along the lines of Gordon Craig's *The Germans*. The book is hard to beat as an introduction to contemporary Germany.
Rating: 4
Summary: Gut begonnen ist halb gewonnen (Well begun is half done)
Comment: Indeed, Kempe's search provides intrinsic insight into the contemporary, German psyche that avoids historical pedagogy, monotony, and trite narrative. Each chapter reveals its relevance through Kempe's relating of personal, sometimes poignant anecdotes that reveal current issues in German politics and culture. Acknowledging his strong German heritage and personal interest, Kempe takes a critical point-of-view on some of Germany's present/recent past issues: conflicts with the Turks (Germany's largest ethnic minority), Germany's military engagement in Bosnia, etc. However, what truly makes Kempe's work unique is his interweaving of past and present, his personal railing against his Nazi grandfather's heinous crimes and acquittal and praise of modern Germany's informed policies. As Kempe urges and accomplishes himself, the Germans must exact courage in the face of their history and the favorable situation they now find themselves in, for as Geibel once said, "When there is nothing more awesome than fate, it is courage that will bear without a shutter."
Rating: 4
Summary: engaging
Comment: Very enjoyable read that examines some of the amazing contrasts in the German pysche. The author's own ancestors included a "good German", composer R. Schumann and a "bad German", a Nazi, and it is interesting to see him grapple with it.
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Title: Stasiland: True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder ISBN: 1862075808 Publisher: Granta Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning ISBN: 0060995068 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 17 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany (Studies on the History of Society and Culture, 35) by Uta G. Poiger ISBN: 0520211391 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Fighting for Hope by Petra K. Kelly ISBN: 0896082164 Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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