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Presenting the 1937 diaries of John F. Kennedy's tour of Europe,
this volume offers insights into his early experiences on a
continent under the shadow of Nazism. In 1937, while still a
student, John F. Kennedy undertook a grand tour of Europe with his
close friend and travelling companion, Lem Billings. On this
journey he began to keep a diary which is reproduced here in full
and provides an unadulterated account of his thoughts and feelings.
Superficially, it presents a picture of two young men enjoying
their summer, sightseeing, going to the movies, bars and night
clubs; but behind this we find, in Kennedy’s political
observations and encounters, the looming shadow of Nazism. In
retrospect there are blind spots and misjudgments, but also
insights of great topicality, for example on populism, and
propaganda and its potent effects. On this trip and during his
later travels in Germany, Kennedy engaged with the crucial
questions of his later presidency: How does a dictatorship work?
How is an alternative concept of society to be countered? And how
can an impending war be averted? Kennedy's European and Russia
policy and also his famous Berlin speech of 1963 ("Ich bin ein
Berliner") are to be understood against this background. In
addition to numerous archive photographs, this volume contains
Kennedy's complete diary of his 1937 trip to Europe and, as a
counterpart, the ‘Scrapbook’ of Lem Billings who documented it
from his perspective.
Presenting the 1937 diaries of John F. Kennedy's tour of Europe,
this volume offers insights into his early experiences on a
continent under the shadow of Nazism. In 1937, while still a
student, John F. Kennedy undertook a grand tour of Europe with his
close friend and travelling companion, Lem Billings. On this
journey he began to keep a diary which is reproduced here in full
and provides an unadulterated account of his thoughts and feelings.
Superficially, it presents a picture of two young men enjoying
their summer, sightseeing, going to the movies, bars and night
clubs; but behind this we find, in Kennedy’s political
observations and encounters, the looming shadow of Nazism. In
retrospect there are blind spots and misjudgments, but also
insights of great topicality, for example on populism, and
propaganda and its potent effects. On this trip and during his
later travels in Germany, Kennedy engaged with the crucial
questions of his later presidency: How does a dictatorship work?
How is an alternative concept of society to be countered? And how
can an impending war be averted? Kennedy's European and Russia
policy and also his famous Berlin speech of 1963 ("Ich bin ein
Berliner") are to be understood against this background. In
addition to numerous archive photographs, this volume contains
Kennedy's complete diary of his 1937 trip to Europe and, as a
counterpart, the ‘Scrapbook’ of Lem Billings who documented it
from his perspective.
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was a world traveler,
bestselling writer, and versatile researcher, a European salon
sensation, and global celebrity. Yet the enormous literary echo he
generated has remained largely unexplored. Humboldt inspired
generations of authors, from Goethe and Byron to Enzensberger and
Garcia Marquez, to reflect on cultural difference, colonial
ideology, and the relation between aesthetics and science. This
collection of one-hundred texts features tales of adventure, travel
reports, novellas, memoirs, letters, poetry, drama, screenplays,
and even comics-many for the first time in English. The selection
covers the foundational myths and magical realism of Latin America,
the intellectual independence of Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, and Whitman
in the United States, discourses in Imperial, Weimar, Nazi, East,
and West Germany, as well as recent films and fiction. This
documented source book addresses scholars in cultural and
postcolonial studies as well as readers in history and comparative
literature.
Alexander von Humboldt explored the Spanish Empire on the verge of
its collapse (1799-1804). He is the most significant German travel
writer and the most important mediator between Europe and the
Americas of the nineteenth century. His works integrated knowledge
from two dozen domains. Today, he is at the center of debates on
imperial discourse, postcolonialism, and globalization. This
collection of fifty essays brings together a range of responses,
many presented here for the first time in English. Authors from
Schiller, Chateaubriand, Sarmiento, and Nietzsche, to Robert Musil,
Kurt Tucholsky, Ernst Bloch, and Alejo Carpentier paint the
historical background. Essays by contemporary travel writers and
recent critics outline the current controversies on Humboldt. The
source materials collected here will be indispensable to scholars
of German, French, and Latin and North American literature as well
as cultural and postcolonial studies, history, art history, and the
history of science.
Neben seinen Grosswerken hat Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)
auch ein umfangreiches publizistisches OEuvre veroeffentlicht: uber
750 verschiedene Aufsatze, Artikel, Essays in Zeitungen und
Zeitschriften und als Beitrage zu den Werken anderer Autoren. Rund
40 davon sind auch in russischer Sprache erschienen, vor allem im
Anschluss an Humboldts Reise durch Zentral-Asien 1829. Es handelt
sich um eine Erzahlung, Reiseberichte und Briefe sowie Fachaufsatze
zum Beispiel zur russischen Geologie. Sie werden in dieser Edition
erstmals gesammelt und nach den historischen Originalen
wiedergegeben.
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