America in White, Black, and Gray by Klaus P Fischer

America in White, Black, and Gray by Klaus P Fischer

From the reviews of Nazi Germany The best one-volume history of the Third Reich available.It fills a void which has existed for a long time and it will probably become the basic text for generations of students. Walter Laqueur An indispensable, compellingly readable political, military and social history of the Third Reich. Publishers Weekly From the reviews of History of an Obsession. This is truly a significant work, for Fischer gives a balanced account of a complex subject, making it painfully clear just how Germany became capable of genocide. Booklist Fischer writes with a clear mastery of both primary and secondary sources. Synthesizing a wide spectrum of literature into a fine, scholarly work. Library Journal. No decade since the end of World War I has been as seminal in its historical significance as the 1960s. That stormy period unleashed a host of pent-up social and generational conflicts that had not been experienced since the Civil War: intense racial and ethnic strife, cold war terror, the Vietnam War, counter-cultural protests, controversial social engineering, and political rancor. Numerous studies on various aspects of these issues have been written over the past 35 years, but few have so successfully integrated the many-sided components into a coherent, synthetic, and reliable book that combines good storytelling with sound scholarly analysis. The main materials covered will be the Kennedy and Johnson presidencies; the Civil Rights movement; the Vietnam War and the protest it generated; the New Left, student radicals, and Black student militancy; and, finally, the counter-cultural side of the 60s: hippies, sex and Rock n Roll.

"This is an extraordinary book for two reasons, which are connectedOne is the unique perspective of its author. The other, to some extent a consequence of the former, is the result: an important contribution to recent American history that ought not to be ignored by historians and that ought to be read by many Americans for the sake of their enlightenment." John Lukacs, author of Five Days in London and The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle between Churchill and Hitler"

Klaus Fischer is a cultural historian of Modern Europe with expertise in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Born in Germany in 1942, he arrived in the United States in 1959 as a 17-year-old emigrant. He attended Arizona State University and then the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his PhD in 1972. He is the author of Nazi Germany: A New History and The History of an Obsession: German Judeophobia and the Holocaust.

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ISBN 13	9780826428264
ISBN 10	0826428266
Title	America in White, Black, and Gray
Author	Klaus P Fischer
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2007-07-30
Number of pages	466
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