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Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic
An Alternative History of Postwar Germany
First Edition
Paul Hockenos
384 pages
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19 b/w halftones
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234x156mm
978-0-19-518183-8
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Hardback
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20 December 2007
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- An engaging biography of the colorful and highly influential German politician Joschka Fischer, offering a fresh view of politics in postwar Germany
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 Germany's foreign minister from 1998 to 2005. His famous challenge to Donald Rumsfeld's case for invading Iraq--"Excuse me, I am not convinced"--won him worldwide recognition, and the Bush administration's
contempt.
Here is both a lively biography of Joschka Fischer and a gripping history 'from below'of 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 group to the evolution of Europe's 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 republic's status quo, making postwar Germany more democratic, liberal and worldly along the 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 Germany.
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 paints a rich picture of the rebellious generation of 1968 that became the political elite of modern Germany.Readership: Students and scholars of history, politics, and international relations.
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""For years, Paul Hockenos has been a refreshingly independent and tough-minded observer of the politics of Eastern and Central Europe. Now he gives us a lucid, comprehensive account of the rise of Joschka Fischer and the whole panoply of red-green politics in Germany. Filling in many holes, at least for the English-speaking public, he shows how much German democracy owes to post-60s citizens' movements and the '68-ers' proverbial 'long march through the institutions.'"--Todd Gitlin, author of The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage"
""This is an ambitious and original book, deeply researched and lucidly written. It should be on the must-read list for anyone interested in late twentieth-century German history and in the history and legacy of the 1968 generation."--Mary Nolan, Professor of History, New York University"
""Modern Germany is very different from the uptight and defensive country--with much to be defensive about--that I first visited in the 1960s. The significant role in that transformation played by the 'sixty-eight generation'--and above all by the extraordinarily talented and ever personally evolving Joschka Fischer--is an intriguing story, which Paul Hockenos tells lucidly and well."--Gareth Evans, President, International Crisis Group and Foreign Minister of Australia 1988-96"
""Paul Hockenos knows Germany very well, and he is not afraid to tackle ambiguity and complexity. His scholarly and eminently readable biography of Joschka Fischer provides a serious alternative to more conventional accounts of major changes in Germany."--Norman Birnbaum, author of After Progress: American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century "
""A refreshingly clear, elegant portrait of the Europe most influenced by the US and most reflective of its ideals and follies. To understand Fischer and Germany's voyage over the last 60 years is to understand America's own. Those who wish to understand how others see the US today should read this book."--Marcia Pally, author of Critique Abandoned: The Ceding of Democracy"
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Preface
Introduction/Prologue
Part I: Adenauer's Germany
1: Postwar
2: The Silent Fifties
Part II: The Red Decade
3: Anti-Authoritarian Revolt
4: The Radical Left
Part III: From Protest to Parliament
5: Between Harrisburg and Hiroshima
6: Autumn of the Euromissiles
7: Going Realo
8: One Two Many Germanys
Part IV: The Berlin Republic
9: German Questions
10: The Price of Power
11: Continential Drift
Conclusion
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