Synopsis
Art dealer Otto Wacker’s 1932 sensational trial in Berlin for selling fake Van Goghs leads Eksteins to a unique narrative of a collapsing Weimar Germany, the rise of another misfit, Adolf Hitler, and the replacement of nineteenth-century certitude with twentieth-century doubt.
About Modris Eksteins
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Modris Eksteins is Professor Emeritus of History, at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.
Published May 1, 2012
by Harvard University Press.
366 pages
Genres:
History, Arts & Photography, Travel, Biographies & Memoirs, Political & Social Sciences.
Non-fiction
