The Golden Twenties: Art and Literature in the Weimar Republic

Barbel Schrader, Barbel Scheader. Yale University Press, $30 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-300-04797-4

Two East German theater historians expose the cultural troubles of a time that outwardly seemed glamorous and progressive yet often copied popular American phenomena, a tendency that resulted in the production of kitsch. PW called this a ``revealing'' study. Illustrated. (Nov.)

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