{"product_id":"cursed-legacy-9780300218008","title":"Cursed Legacy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSon of the famous Thomas Mann, homosexual, drug-addicted, and forced to flee from his fatherland, the gifted writer Klaus Mann's comparatively short life was as artistically productive as it was devastatingly dislocated. Best-known today as the author of Mephisto, the literary enfant terrible of the Weimar era produced seven novels, a dozen plays, four biographies, and three autobiographiesamong them the first works in Germany to tackle gay issuesamidst a prodigious artistic output. He was among the first to take up his pen against the Nazis, as a reward for which he was blacklisted and denounced as a dangerous half-Jew, his books burnt in public squares around Germany, and his citizenship revoked. Having served with the U.S. military in Italy, he was nevertheless undone by anti-Communist fanatics in Cold War-era America and Germany, dying in France (though not, as all other books contend, by his own hand) at age forty-two.    Powerful, revealing, and compulsively readable, this first \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This absorbing biography draws a three-dimensional picture of the life of Klaus Mann, novelist, playwright, essayist, gay rights advocate, and seemingly the unluckiest man of letters in the years around WWII.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e“Spotts writes with humor and style, and a great admiration for his subject, which makes this biography valuable for literary historians but also quite accessible to the general reader.”—\u003ci\u003eJewish Book Council\u003c\/i\u003e * Jewish Book Council *\u003cbr\u003e“Like all the finest biographers, Spotts brings history to life. He enables the reader to grasp the deep anxieties experienced by someone whose political convictions threatened his professional livelihood. . . .  Above all he tells the heart-breaking story of an intellectual who stood up for his beliefs in dark times and paid a highly personal price for his politics.”—Anna Katharina Schaffner, \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e -- Anna Katherina Schaffner * TLS *\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Lambda Literary Awards in the Gay Memoir\/Biography category. -- Lambda Literary Awards * Lambda Literary Foundation *","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401535791447,"sku":"9780300218008","price":33.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300218008.jpg?v=1730477731","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cursed-legacy-9780300218008","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}