This is a really insightful selection of essays, full of strong reflections on some of the more profound and traumatic episodes of our last century....Nazism, Russian and Chinese totalitarianism, South African and Rwandan reconciliation.
The Undead Past | Foreign Affairs: "The Germans have a word for it, of course: Vergangenheitsbewältigung, or “coming to terms with the past.” But the concept is applicable far beyond the Nazis—as Americans belatedly recognized when Robert E. Lee shot to the front of the culture wars last August after the riots in Charlottesville, Virginia."
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