The Weimar Century: German migrs and the Ideological Foundations of the Cold War

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The Weimar Century reveals the origins of two dramatic events: Germany's post-World War II transformation from a racist dictatorship to a liberal democracy, and the ideological genesis of the Cold War. Blending intellectual, political, and international histories, Udi Greenberg shows that the foundations of Germany's reconstruction lay in the count

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Winner of the 2016 European Studies Book Award, Council for European Studies "The Weimar Century is a stimulating, original, and timely meditation on politics and ideas."--Michael Kimmage, New Republic "[A] fantastic new study."--Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Dissent "A fascinating and readable study of five thinkers who are mainly forgotten but were influential in the early Cold War era and postwar Germany."--Jorg Meindl, Yearbook of German American Studies "A most ambitious and important work that spans several fields and offers new interpretations of the post-World War II democratization of West Germany, the consolidation of the Atlantic alliance, and the character of US Cold War thought and policy."--Mary Nolan, Journal of Modern History

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Udi Greenberg is assistant professor of history at Dartmouth College.