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- Product code: 253759
- ISBN: 0195181832,
ISBN13: 9780195181838,
384 pages, hardback
Published by Oxford University Press on 2008
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Description of Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic: An Alternative History of Postwar G... |
Over the course of his long and controversial career, Joschka Fischer evolved from an archetypal 1960s radical--a firebrand street activist--into a shrewd political insider, operating at the heights of German politics. In the 1980s he was one of the first elected Greens and went on to become<br>Germanys foreign minister from 1998 to 2005. His famous challenge to Donald Rumsfelds case for invading Iraq--Excuse me, I am not convinced--won him worldwide recognition, and the Bush administrations contempt.<br><br>Here is both a lively biography of Joschka Fischer and a gripping history from belowof postwar Germany. Paul Hockenos begins in the ruins of postwar Germany and guides us through the flashpoints of the late sixties and seventies, from the student protests and the terrorism of the Baader-Meinhof<br>group to the evolution of Europes premier Green party, and brings us up to the present in the united Germany. He shows how the grassroots movements that became the German Greens challenged and changed the republics status quo, making postwar Germany more democratic, liberal and worldly along the<br>way. Despite the ideological twists and turns of Fischer and his peers, the lessons of the Holocaust and the Nazi terror remained their constant coordinates. Hockenos traces that political journey, providing readers with unique insight into the impact that these movements and the Greens have had on<br>Germany. <br><br>Informed by hundreds of interviews with key figures and fellow travelers, Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic presents readers with one of the most intriguing personalities on the European scene, and paintsa rich picture of the rebellious generation of 1968 that became the<br>political elite of modern Germany.
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