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Author Grossman, Victor, 1928-

Title Crossing the river : a memoir of the American left, the Cold War, and life in East Germany / Victor Grossman (Stephen Wechsler) ; edited with an afterword by Mark Solomon
Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Crossing the border. Childhood -- Harvard years -- Working -- Soldier. Life in East Germany. Starting in a new land -- The clubhouse and the lathe -- A student again -- Journalist in a divided city -- Radio, Robeson, and the Prague Spring -- Freelancing in East Germany -- Tremors -- Death of a nation -- A new life in united Germany -- The Big Rock Candy Mountain? -- Epilogue : eau de cologne -- Afterword and selected bibliography by Mark Solomon
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Grossman, Victor, 1928-
SUBJECT Grossman, Victor, 1928- fast
Subject Defectors -- United States -- Biography
Defectors -- Germany (East) -- Biography
Cold War.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
Defectors
Travel
SUBJECT Germany (East) -- Description and travel
Subject Germany (East)
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Solomon, Mark
ISBN 9781613769874
1613769873