FATHER / LAND Fredericke Kempe - A Personal Search for the New Germany

FATHER LAND is a book on modern German culture and identity by Wall Street Journal Europe correspondent Fredericke Kempe.

THIS IS A USED BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION: clean and lightly read; clean cover; pages are clean and tanning lightly with age; accidental crease to bottom of first couple of pages; excellent binding with no spine creases.

PUBLISHER'S BLURB: During a pilgrimage to Germany with his father, Fred Kempe promised him he would write about modern Germany. Twelve years later, as a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal Europe, Mr. Kempe began a long journey of exploration in an attempt to answer questions that haunted him about his father's land: "How could such an apparently good people with such a rich cultural history have done such evil things? What causes evil, and what breeds good? After only half a century of re-education and reconstruction, could the strength of German democracy and liberalism be as great as it seemed?“ In this book, Fred Kempe delves into Germany's demographic change, its modern military, its youth, and America's role in the remaking of Germany after the war. He also looks at German pre-war history and how that history plays into shaping the future of the newly in-tact Germany. While searching modern Germany for the answers to his philosophical questions, Kempe finds himself in a parallel search for the roots of his own German heritage.
Through seeking out relatives and searching documents that might enlighten him about the unspoken mysteries of his family's past, he discovers more than he bargained for, and at the same time learns a great deal about himself. The journey that began as the fulfilment of a promise to his father, led him as he had hoped, to a greater understanding his father's Heimat. In the last chapter of his book, Kempe calls modern Germany ”America's Stepchild." He theorises that Germans, because of their past atrocities, feel a great responsibility to their European neighbours as well as to the world. In their process of atonement, they have become a kinder and gentler people, while their strength remains. Their role as a world leader beckons them to heights to which they no longer aspire. Reaching great heights makes the world seem conquerable. This is the mistake they must avoid. Reaching out makes the world more united. This is the direction they know they must go.

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Code: SKU1874

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Binding: Paperback

Pages: 339

Published: 1999 by Indiana University Press, USA

ISBN: 0253215250

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