{"product_id":"thomas-manns-war-9781501744990","title":"Thomas Manns War","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas Mann''s War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America''s most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in literature and author of such world-renowned novels as\u003ci\u003e Buddenbrooks \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, began his self-imposed exile in the United States in 1938, having fled his native Germany in the wake of Nazi persecution and public burnings of his books. Mann embraced his role as a public intellectual, deftly using his literary reputation and his connections in an increasingly global publishing industry to refute Nazi propaganda. As Boes shows, Mann undertook successful lecture tours of the country and penned widely-read articles that alerted US audiences and readers to the dangers of complacency in the face of Nazism''s existential threat. Spanning four decades, from the eve of World Wa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoes's exhaustive, meticulous survey should come to represent an exemplar for scholarship seeking to document the lasting significance of an author's work.\u003c\/p\u003e * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoes's superb account is based on extensive archival research, including Mann's personal letters, as well as keen assessments of his novels.\u003c\/p\u003e * The National Interest *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas Mann's War\u003c\/i\u003e is important and timely. It is a reminder that literature is one of the first things to come under attack when authoritarianism takes hold, something for which there is ample evidence in our present moment, from China to Russia, from Turkey to Saudi Arabia.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: For the Sake of Survival\u003cbr\u003e 1. Luddism\u003cbr\u003e 2. Communion\u003cbr\u003e 3. Cyberculture\u003cbr\u003e 4. Distortion\u003cbr\u003e 5. Revolutionary Suicide\u003cbr\u003e 6. Liberation Technology\u003cbr\u003e 7. Thanatopography\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: American Carnage and Technologies of Tomorrow\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Permissions\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409340342615,"sku":"9781501744990","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501744990.jpg?v=1730506478","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thomas-manns-war-9781501744990","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}