Preface
Introduction/Prologue
Part I: Adenauer's Germany
1: Postwar
2: The Silent Fifties
Part II: The Red Decade
3: Old Left - New Left
4: The Radical Left
Part III: From Protest to Parliament
5: Siezing the Initiative
6: Going Realo
7: Autumn of the Euromissiles
8: One Two Many Germanys
Part IV: The Berlin Republic
9: Answering German Questions
10: The Price of Power
11: Continential Drift
Conclusion
Paul Hockenos is an American Berlin-based author and political
analyst who has written about Europe since 1989. His articles and
commentaries have appeared in dozens of periodicals in Europe and
North America. Hockenos is also the author of Free to Hate: The
Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe and Homeland
Calling: Exile Patriotism and the Balkan Wars. He is presently the
editor of Internationale Politik-Global
Edition, a foreign affairs quarterly published in Germany.
"Informed and highly readable.""--The Nation
"This is biographical history at its best."--Philip H. Gordon,
Foreign Affairs
"[An] absorbing new book... Hockenos is excellent in tracing the
rise of the Green movement from a fringe collection of tree huggers
into a groundbreaking force for change in German
society."--Washington Monthly
"This absorbing alternative history of postwar Germany chronicles
how as a leader of the new Green Party, Fischer presided over the
mainstreaming of environmental concerns and the fashioning of a new
foreign policy framework for a unified Germany."--Foreign Policy In
Focus
"[A]n enlightening yarn about a local boy made good, who several
times, by the skin of his teeth, saved his party, his government
and his reputation."--The Economist
"...this readable and engaging volume.... Hockenos succeeds here in
writing the story not only of Fischer, but also of the diverse
protest movements and grassroots campaigns, born of Fischer's
generation, that shaped post-1945 Germany. He writes compellingly
about these civic initiatives and political movements...."--The
Weekly Standard
"For years, Paul Hockenos has been a refreshingly independent and
tough-minded observer of the politics of Eastern and Central
Europe. Now he gives us a lucid, comprehensive account of the rise
of Joschka Fischer and the whole panoply of red-green politics in
Germany. Filling in many holes, at least for the English-speaking
public, he shows how much German democracy owes to post-60s
citizens' movements and the '68-ers' proverbial 'long march through
the
institutions.'"--Todd Gitlin, author of The Sixties: Years of Hope,
Days of Rage
"This is an ambitious and original book, deeply researched and
lucidly written. It should be on the must-read list for anyone
interested in late twentieth-century German history and in the
history and legacy of the 1968 generation."--Mary Nolan, Professor
of History, New York University
"Modern Germany is very different from the uptight and defensive
country--with much to be defensive about--that I first visited in
the 1960s. The significant role in that transformation played by
the 'sixty-eight generation'--and above all by the extraordinarily
talented and ever personally evolving Joschka Fischer--is an
intriguing story, which Paul Hockenos tells lucidly and
well."--Gareth Evans, President, International Crisis Group and
Foreign Minister of
Australia 1988-96
"Paul Hockenos knows Germany very well, and he is not afraid to
tackle ambiguity and complexity. His scholarly and eminently
readable biography of Joschka Fischer provides a serious
alternative to more conventional accounts of major changes in
Germany."--Norman Birnbaum, author of After Progress: American
Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century
"A refreshingly clear, elegant portrait of the Europe most
influenced by the US and most reflective of its ideals and follies.
To understand Fischer and Germany's voyage over the last 60 years
is to understand America's own. Those who wish to understand how
others see the US today should read this book."--Marcia Pally,
author of Critique Abandoned: The Ceding of Democracy
"Informed and highly readable.""--The Nation
"This is biographical history at its best."--Philip H. Gordon,
Foreign Affairs
"[An] absorbing new book... Hockenos is excellent in tracing the
rise of the Green movement from a fringe collection of tree huggers
into a groundbreaking force for change in German
society."--Washington Monthly
"[A]n enlightening yarn about a local boy made good, who several
times, by the skin of his teeth, saved his party, his government
and his reputation."--The Economist
"For years, Paul Hockenos has been a refreshingly independent and
tough-minded observer of the politics of Eastern and Central
Europe. Now he gives us a lucid, comprehensive account of the rise
of Joschka Fischer and the whole panoply of red-green politics in
Germany. Filling in many holes, at least for the English-speaking
public, he shows how much German democracy owes to post-60s
citizens' movements and the '68-ers' proverbial 'long march through
the
institutions.'"--Todd Gitlin, author of The Sixties: Years of Hope,
Days of Rage
"This is an ambitious and original book, deeply researched and
lucidly written. It should be on the must-read list for anyone
interested in late twentieth-century German history and in the
history and legacy of the 1968 generation."--Mary Nolan, Professor
of History, New York University
"Modern Germany is very different from the uptight and defensive
country--with much to be defensive about--that I first visited in
the 1960s. The significant role in that transformation played by
the 'sixty-eight generation'--and above all by the extraordinarily
talented and ever personally evolving Joschka Fischer--is an
intriguing story, which Paul Hockenos tells lucidly and
well."--Gareth Evans, President, International Crisis Group and
Foreign Minister of
Australia 1988-96
"Paul Hockenos knows Germany very well, and he is not afraid to
tackle ambiguity and complexity. His scholarly and eminently
readable biography of Joschka Fischer provides a serious
alternative to more conventional accounts of major changes in
Germany."--Norman Birnbaum, author of After Progress: American
Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century
"A refreshingly clear, elegant portrait of the Europe most
influenced by the US and most reflective of its ideals and follies.
To understand Fischer and Germany's voyage over the last 60 years
is to understand America's own. Those who wish to understand how
others see the US today should read this book."--Marcia Pally,
author of Critique Abandoned: The Ceding of Democracy
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