Kurt Tucholsky: The Short Fat Berliner Who Tried to Stop A Catastrophe With A Typewriter

Harold L. Poors biography of the iconic German Jewish author journalist satirist playwright and poet is the most important and thorough work on Kurt Tucholsky in the English-speaking world; a labor of love by the Rutgers history professor that is still unmatched. For this book Poor has not only spent years of research in American Universities he also visited Tucholskys widow Mary Gerold in her home in Germany his family in tow and unearthed material letters and pictures previously unknown. This book is an entertaining and well-written gem that has finally been rediscovered.Harold L. Poors study is one of the best of a large and growing crop.Gordon Craig The New York TimesThe book does offer an introduction to a very important periodand a witty cosmopolitan quite tragic man.Kirkus ReviewsThis biography the first substantial treatment of its subject in English does an excellent job of analyzing Tucholskys Hassliebe for Germany.Robert E. Neil The American Historical ReviewPoor has placed the brilliant satirist in the context of the history of his country. ... a meticulously researched copiously annotated study.Harry Zohn The Germanic ReviewAn (...) academic exercise of the sort Tucholsky himself prophetically anticipated in his Plea Against Immortality.Ernst Pawel Commentary MagazinePoor has provided a new focus of the Weimar Republic and its fate.Carl E. Schorske The New York Review of BooksThis one was well worth doing and it is well worth reading.Richard Hanser The German-American ReviewA readable orientation to the history of the Weimar era.Wayne Wonderley Richmond News LeaderAn interesting picture of the Germany of the 1920s as it headed inexorably toward Hitlerism and the devastation of World War II.Jerry Few the Arizona Daily Star