Guido Goldman

Transatlantic Bridge Builder
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-263-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

The son of Nahum Goldmann, who was the founder of the World Jewish Congress, Guido Goldman was one of the most distinguished protagonists of the reintegration of Germany into the international community after the defeat of Nazism in 1945. Later he helped establish the German Marshall Fund and created Harvard University’s Center for European Studies as one of the pre-eminent research institutes and meeting places in the world for scholars, graduate students, prominent politicians, and artists. His large network of friends and interlocutors included Willy Brandt and Helmut Kohl, Henry Kissinger and Ronald Reagan, Harry Belafonte and Marlene Dietrich. His generous philanthropy extended to the preservation of non-Western cultures threatened by extinction, such as the IKAT project through which he revived the unique ancient textile arts of Central Asia. All this comes alive in Martin Klingst’s careful reconstruction of Goldman's life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klingst, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politikerbiographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Michelle Müntefering

Preface



Chapter 1. 1972 and 2019—New Starts and Apocalyptic Moods

Chapter 2. A New York Childhood

Chapter 3. Guido Goldman’s Extended Family

Chapter 4. Early Years at Harvard

Chapter 5. Why Germany, of All Places?

Chapter 6. Harvard: The Center for European Studies

Chapter 7. The German Marshall Fund of the United States

Chapter 8. The American Institute for Contemporary German Studies

Chapter 9. Shadows of the Past

Chapter 10. The Art Collector

Chapter 11. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Chapter 12. What Remains?

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Klingst, Martin
Martin Klingst was for many years the editorial head of the political department at the liberal German weekly Die Zeit, before working as the paper’s Washington correspondent from 2007 to 2014. He is now the Head of the Office of Strategic Communication and Chief Speechwriter for Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin.