{"product_id":"2940015044782","title":"Rude Awakenings: An American Historian's Encounter With Nazism, Communism and McCarthyism","description":"A richly detailed portrait not only of a man struggling to lead an ethical life but of the disturbed times in which he lived.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on family papers, wide-ranging interviews, FBI files, American and German newspapers, a wide array of published sources, and her own memories, the author traces Marks's German American heritage, his education both formal and informal, his marriage to a fellow Communist from a poor Russian family, his rocky start as an academic, his anguish when confronted by his Communist past, and his ultimate creation of a satisfying career. Her sleuthing encompasses as well the paths to safety taken by his German friends as they found sanctuary around the world--in Russia, England, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Turkey, Palestine, Brazil, the United States, and Canada.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Of particular interest is Carol Sicherman's carefully researched description of the anti-Semitic atmosphere that Jewish students encountered at Harvard in the twenties and thirties, as well as the experience of a young American thrown into the turmoil accompanying the collapse of Germany's democracy and the appeal of Communism as an alternative to Nazism.\" --Curt F. Beck, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Connecticut.","brand":"New Academia Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069662478576,"sku":"2940015044782","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015044782_p0.jpg?v=1763618858","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015044782","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}