Erik Kirschbaum is a correspondent for the Reuters International News Agency, a nonfiction author, a longtime Springsteen fan, and an unabashed crusader for renewable energy. He has written about topics anywhere from entertainment to climate change in over 20 countries. He lives in Berlin.
"A glorious example of the influence that rock 'n' roll can have on
people who are hungry and ready for change." --Michelle Martin,
journalist, The Washington Post
"An illuminating and impressively detailed examination of a
frequently overlooked moment in the nexus of rock music and
political liberation. I learned a great deal and enjoyed doing so."
--Eric Alterman, author, What Liberal Media?
"In telling the back story of how the concert came to be, Rocking
the Wall also offers a fascinating historical snapshot of East
German Communist cultural officials scrambling to contain the
brewing political restlessness all around them." --Vanessa
Fuhrmans, reporter, The Wall Street Journal
"Inside this book is as clear a statement of the power of this
music as anyone, ever, has come up with." --Dave Marsh, music
critic, Rolling Stone
"It was cultural forces, not merely political or military ones,
that won the Cold War for the West, and which may yet spring more
oppressive regimes from the tyranny of the old and joyless. Young
East Germans wanted their rock and roll." --Tris McCall, music
critic, The Star-Ledger
"What was intended by East Berlin's hard-line leadership as a
pacifier for their people, Kirschbaum argues, had the opposite
effect and turned into a powerful agent for change." --Derek
Scally, Berlin correspondent, The Irish Times
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