This narrative follows the journey of a Romanian-born, Hungarian-speaking Jewish professor who emigrates from Vienna to Columbia and Harvard, navigating a life of rootlessness across five decades, two continents, and significant political and cultural changes while seeking comfort and purpose against the backdrop of post-1945 Europe and America.
This narrative follows the journey of a Romanian-born, Hungarian-speaking Jewish professor who emigrates from Vienna to Columbia and Harvard, navigating a life of rootlessness across five decades, two continents, and significant political and cultural changes while seeking comfort and purpose against the backdrop of post-1945 Europe and America.
Andrei S. Markovits is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies; Professor of Political Science; Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword Michael Ignatieff Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Origins: The Virtues of Rootlessness Chapter 2. A Paean to Tante Trude (Who Might or Might Not Have Been a Nazi) Chapter 3. Four Friendships: Discovering America in Vienna Chapter 4. Daphne Scheer, Real Madrid and Internazionale Milano (Inter Milan): The Personal Meets the Political Chapter 5. The Rolling Stones Play Vienna (Resulting in Bodily Harm to the City's Jews) Chapter 6. Arrival in New York: The Dream Meets the Reality Chapter 7. Columbia 1968: How the World - and Andy - Changed in a Single Year Chapter 8. Kiki: Big Politics and Little Andy Chapter 9. The Grateful Dead: My American Family Chapter 10. Harvard's Center for European Studies: The Interloper Finds a Home Chapter 11. Dogs: The Rescuer Rescues Himself Chapter 12. Germany: Admiration for the Bundesrepublik, Discomfort with Deutschland-Epilogue.
Foreword Michael Ignatieff Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Origins: The Virtues of Rootlessness Chapter 2. A Paean to Tante Trude (Who Might or Might Not Have Been a Nazi) Chapter 3. Four Friendships: Discovering America in Vienna Chapter 4. Daphne Scheer, Real Madrid and Internazionale Milano (Inter Milan): The Personal Meets the Political Chapter 5. The Rolling Stones Play Vienna (Resulting in Bodily Harm to the City's Jews) Chapter 6. Arrival in New York: The Dream Meets the Reality Chapter 7. Columbia 1968: How the World - and Andy - Changed in a Single Year Chapter 8. Kiki: Big Politics and Little Andy Chapter 9. The Grateful Dead: My American Family Chapter 10. Harvard's Center for European Studies: The Interloper Finds a Home Chapter 11. Dogs: The Rescuer Rescues Himself Chapter 12. Germany: Admiration for the Bundesrepublik, Discomfort with Deutschland-Epilogue.
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