PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
[Weitz] bring[s] to bear his uncommon erudition and a prose style that is at once rigorous, wonderfully animated, and distinguished by breathtaking clarity. -Noah Isenberg, Bookforum Weimar Germany is elegantly written, generously illustrated and never less than informative. It is also history with attitude. -Peter Graves, Times Literary Supplement Excellent and splendidly illustrated. . . . [A] superb introduction. -Eric Hobsbawm, London Review of Books Weitz effortlessly blends politics and economics, philosophy and literature, art and architecture in a gripping portrait of a culture whose pathology was exceeded only by its creativity. . . . This is history at its best. -Josef Joffe, publisher and editor of Die Zeit and fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
