Author: MANN, GOLO Title: Reminiscences and Reflections a Youth in Germany
Description: New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1990. First Edition. First Printing; Hardcover. ISBN: 0393028712. 9.70 X 6.40 X 1.50 inches; xiii, 338 pages; Hard cover is black with white cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. Gift inscription tidily wrriten upper corner of free end paper, dated 1993. Pages are clean and tight, appears as if unused. DJ has light rubbing/scuffing, flap is price cut. Golo Mann [1909-1994], son of noted German historian and author, Thomas Mann writes of the"'vivid images of personal experience alternate with glimpses of some of the most imporant figures in German intellectual and poliical life; Kurt Hahn, founder of the famous Salem School in Germany, and of Gordonstoun in England [where several male members of the British Royal Family were educated]; the philosopher Karl Jaspers, with whom the auhor studied at the University of Heidelberg; and, of course, Thomas Mann himself ...are the chapters devoted to the struggles that beset the Weimar Republic in the years just preceding the Nazi takeover---an account in which personal observation and historical reflection are blended in masterly fashion". Index.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0393028712 Autobiography; German History; Germany; Weimar Republic; Political History; Nazi Germany; Intellectual Life; Authors; Historians; Literature/Poetry/Classics Cultural History European History History Geography World History Reference Anthropolog
Price: US$ 9.50 Seller: Pegasus Books
- Book number: 7241