Amerika ’33: Die große Krise der Freiheit

Book Presentation & Conversation with Johannes Ehrmann, DIE ZEIT | As part of the event series "On the Ropes: Midterms in America"

The fateful year of 1933: Washington closes itself off, while democracy crumbles in Berlin. Johannes Ehrmann—a masterful historian, “DIE ZEIT” editor, American studies scholar, and award-winning nonfiction author—narrates this fateful turning point in Western history for the first time from a transatlantic perspective. In his nonfiction thriller “America ’33”, the battered Weimar Republic collides with an America in free fall: one in four people is unemployed, and President Roosevelt governs the country under a permanent state of emergency. And yet, it remains a refuge for Europe’s persecuted: Albert Einstein, hunted by the Nazis with a bounty on his head; or Marlene Dietrich, courted by Goebbels. With the instincts of a shrewd reporter and the depth of a historian, Ehrmann assembles a gripping panorama of a turning point that would shape the rest of the 20th century.