Berlin Journal, 1989-1990 - Softcover

Robert, Darnton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393310183 ISBN 13: 9780393310184

Verlag: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1993

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Book by Robert Darnton

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Reseña del editor:

Shock waves from the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 continue to pulse through German society. As the difficult process of reunification continues, it is worth recalling the revolutionary moment when immense crowds took to the streets of Leipzig and Berlin under the banner "We Are the People" and brought down one of the world's most oppressive dictatorships. Robert Darnton's eyewitness account of those historic days "is direct and vivid. His prose conveys the immediacy of the drama." He gives us a memorable cast of characters, from two experts on the repair of broken-down Trabis to the environmental councilor for the polluted city of Bitterfeld, and Isaak Behar, a Jew who managed to survive the Holocaust while hiding in wartime Berlin. With wit and insight Darnton takes us behind the scenes to meet "ordinary people grappling with great change, humanizing history."

Biografía del autor:

Robert Darnton is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Emeritus and University Librarian Emeritus at Harvard University. His honors include a MacArthur Prize, the National Humanities Medal, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and election to the French Legion of Honor. He is the author of Censors at Work, The Great Cat Massacre, and The Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolutionary France, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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• Verlag: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0393310183
• ISBN 13: 9780393310184
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 340