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1 online resource (208 pages) |
Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Walls in Our Heads; 1. Breaking Down the Wall; 2. But for the Weather; 3. Leaving the American Sector; 4. Concrete Details: Your Guide's Tour of Erfurt; 5. ALFs, Autos, and Encounters with the Polizei; 6. Words Fail Me, Yet Again; 7. Destinations and Wanderings; 8. Field without Dreams: Baseball in the Former GDR; 9. The Class That Doesn't Exist in the Country That Once Did; 10. Whatever You Do, Don't Look Down; 11. In Former Times; Afterword: Echoes of a Fallen Wall |
Summary |
Growing up, what Sanford Tweedie knew about East Germany was basically ... nothing. West Germans were our friends; East Germans, the enemy. In 2000, somewhat better informed, Tweedie took advantage of a Fulbright Scholarship to move his family to the eastern German town of Erfurt for the academic year. Far from home and the familiar, with temporary status and a tenuous grasp of the language, he and his wife were curious to see how they would function shorn of all the rules that governed their daily lives-housing, food acquisition, transportation, and even basic communication. As soon as t |
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Tweedie, Sanford, 1962-
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SUBJECT |
Tweedie, Sanford, 1962- fast |
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Authors, American -- Biography
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Americans -- Germany -- Biography
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Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 -- Biography
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
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TRAVEL -- Europe -- Germany.
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Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989
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Americans
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Authors, American
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Erfurt (Germany) -- Biography
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Germany
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Germany -- Erfurt
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Biographies
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780803271609 |
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0803271603 |
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