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Dear Harry
Americans are not shy about letting politicians know what’s on their minds, and, in Harry Truman, they believed that they had a president they could level with. He even sometimes responded personally to them—especially on subjects he felt strongly about. Today, it seems remarkable that a man who described the presidency as “the most awesome job in the world” would take the time to read and respond to White House mail.Truman, however, had an unquenchable thirst for what his “everyday Americans” were thinking, yet distrusted opinion polls. For him, the daily stack of mail provided the next best poll after the voting booth. Authors Giangreco and Moore include a robust cross section ...
The Chosen Ones
In the middle of the 20th century Vienna began the transformation from post-imperial oddity to a new sub-imperial status as a satellite of Berlin under Nazi control. Am Spiegelgrund clinic, an institution in a garden suburb of the city, was apparently well-intentioned: both a reform school for lost, wayward boys and girls, and a clinic for chronically ill or malformed children. However, its doctors, nurses and teachers created a monstrous parody of the institution's benign-sounding brief, as instructed by the Nazi regime's euthanasia programme, devised to eliminate 'physically, mentally and racially inferior stock'. Through the eyes of an inmate, Adrian Ziegler, and a nurse, Anna Katschenka, Steve Sem-Sandberg, author of the award-winning The Emperor of Lies, explores an intolerable chapter in Austria's past. An absorbing, overwhelming novel, rich in incident and character, The Chosen Ones is obliquely illuminated by the author's sharp sense of the absurd. Passionately serious, meticulously researched, it is an invaluable case study of oppression and injustice.
Confidential Recollections Revealed
This book is the autobiography of an occultist and pioneer astrologer from 1894 to 1946. Brahy founded the Belgian Institute of Astrology and its astrological journal Demain, and he also founded the Belgian branch of the Rosicrucian Fellowship. From the late 1920s on, he published stock market advisory letters and a book explaining the astrological methods that he used. He gives an account of the development of astrology in the 1920s and 1930s, culminating with the three International Congresses of Astrologers in Europe and his visits to the U.S. in 1937 and 1939. And he tells how astrology managed to thrive during the Nazi occupation of Belgium 1939-1944. He also gives a valuable assessment...
seeking Jack
Jack the Ripper is dead. This simple certainty may come as no surprise, since the prostitute killer raged in the Whitechapel slum in London more than 130 years ago. But it never became quiet around the first serial killer. And therefore the former investigator of the Scotland Yard, Frederick Abberline, came to look for the murderer of the women many years after his death. He is accompanied by a mysterious stranger who is pretending to know the true identity of Jack. Mark Roth adopted his analysis of Jack the Ripper, subtitled ambiguously as "Observation in nine Scenes", as a play. Frederick Abberline meets a stranger who knows suspiciously much about the murders in the East End of London. To...
De utvalda
På kliniken Spiegelgrund, en del av det stora sjukhuskomplexet Steinhof i Wien, placerades mellan 1940 och 1945 sådana barn som de nazistiska myndigheterna stämplade som överflödiga: föräldralösa, socialt missanpassade eller ”rasmässigt degenererade”. Svaga och svårt sjuka barn blev avlivade. I sin roman om detta mikrokosmos i det nazistiska Europa, följer Steve Sem-Sandberg framför allt två personer, en av de intagna, Adrian Ziegler, och en av de ansvariga sköterskorna på kliniken, Anna Katschenka, var och en ohjälpligt deformerad av omständigheterna. De utvalda är ett nytt kapitel i Steve Sem-Sandbergs pågående roman om Europa under andra världskriget. Om döden för de fattiga i Lódź var regeln, blev överlevandet för de som räddades från Spiegelgrund ett livslångt undantagstillstånd.
Graue Vorzeit
Wer waren unsere Vorfahren? Wie haben all jene gelebt, die nicht mit Rang und Namen in den Geschichtsbüchern auftauchen? Wie gingen die sozusagen gesichtslosen Kleinbauern, Tagelöhner, Soldknechte mit den Wirren ihrer Zeit um, mit Krieg, Pest, Hunger, Kindersterblichkeit? Hier bekommen sie ein Gesicht, auf Grund dokumentierter Ereignisse eingeordnet in ihre Zeit, vom Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts zurück bis in die frühe Neuzeit. Was hier notiert ist, könnte auch Ihren Ahnen geschehen sein: Ein Rosenkrieg zwischen einem verarmten Heimweber und seiner Ehefrau. Amerika-Auswanderer, die auf der langen Überfahrt fast ertrinken. Arme, die sich im Jahr ohne Sommer von gesottenem Gras, Blut und Ku...
