Exiled in Paradise

by Heilbut, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780520210981
• ISBN10: 0520210980
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

A brilliant look at the writers, artists, scientists, movie directors, and scholars--ranging from Bertolt Brecht to Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Mann, and Fritz Lang--who fled Hitler's Germany and how they changed the very fabric of American culture. In a new postscript, Heilbut draws attention to the recent changes in reputation and image that have shaped the reception of the German exiles.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Part I: Europe to America	3	(116)
1. Berolina	3	(20)
2. In Transit	23	(25)
3. Becoming American	48	(24)
4. The Academic Welcome	72	(29)
5. Left and Right	101	(18)
Part II: Europe in America	119	(206)
6. New Opiates of the People	119	(16)
7. The Line of Most Resistance	135	(25)
8. The State of Having Escaped: Theodor W. Adorno	160	(15)
9. Not a "Nice Guy": Bertolt Brecht	175	(20)
10. Advise and Affirm	195	(18)
11. Entrepreneurs of Images	213	(16)
12. A Club for Discontented Europeans	229	(32)
13. Er Gibt den Ton An	261	(37)
14. The Loneliness of Thomas Mann	298	(27)
Part III: The Return of the Enemy Aliens	325	(156)
15. The Victims Start Judging	325	(25)
16. The Scientists and the Bomb	350	(14)
17. From Undeutsch to Un-American	364	(31)
18. "I Somehow Don't Fit": Hannah Arendt	395	(43)
19. Heroes of the 1960s	438	(43)
Postscript	481	(18)
Notes	499	(16)
Index	515