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Germany? Germany!
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Kurt Tucholsky was a brilliant satirist, poet, storyteller, lyricist, pacifist, and democrat; a fighter, ladies' man, reporter, and early warner against the Nazis who hated and loathed him and drove him out of Germany after his books were burned in 1933. Ralph Blumenthal is a distinguished lecturer at Baruch College and a former reporter for The New York Times. He is the author of Last Days of the Sicilians, Miracle at Sing Sing, Once Through the Heart, and Stork Club. He lives in New York City. Harry Zohn was a professor of German and a prolific translator. He wrote chiefly on German literature of the 20th century with special reference to Jewish and Austrian authors.

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"Many of his aphorisms, observations, and formulations are timeless. More than a few are thankfully included in Germany? Germany! . . . Tucholsky, who was neither a politician nor a psychiatrist, was neither practical nor helpful -- just brilliant and right . . . Even calling him a satirist -- Germany's greatest since Heinrich Heine -- does not fully capture this brilliant man." --Los Angeles Review of Books

"Imagine a writer with the acid voice of Christopher Hitchens and the satirical whimsy of Jon Stewart, combined with the iconoclasm of Bill Maher. That's Tucholsky in a nutshell." --Anne Nelson, author, The Red Orchestra

"In Weimar Germany, Tucholsky was big, the most brilliant, prolific and witty cultural journalist of his time. He poured scorn on the reactionary institutions of the old regime, the follies of the Weimar Republic, and the peculiarities of the German character." --William Grimes, The New York Times

"Kurt Tucholsky made his name as one of the Weimar era's most acid, incisive satirists; but to read this panoramic selection of essays, monologues, dialogues and aphorisms is to be reminded that he was also a brilliant literary shape-shifter, able to take on the persona of an embryo, a squirrel, a suite of pulp novels, or a prophet of post-apocalyptic hope with equal felicity." --George Prochnik, author, In Pursuit of Silence

"Kurt Tucholsky was one of the most brilliant German Jewish writers and satirists of his time. The world has yet to discover his genius." --Peter Schneider, author, The Wall Jumper and Eduard's Homecoming

"Tucholsky was a small, fat Berliner, who wanted to stop a catastrophe with his typewriter." --Erich Kaestner, author, Emil and the Detectives

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