Norman Eisen
Autore di The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
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Norman Eisen is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings. He served as special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee from 2019 to 2020, including for the impeachment and trial of President Donald J. Trump, and as ethics czar for President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2011. His book about mostra altro the impeachment, A Case for the American People: The United States v. Donald J. Trump, was published in 2020. mostra meno
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The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five… di Norman Eisen
Somewhat spotty history, taking as its theme a well-known landmark of Prague that was built by a Jewish industrialist and today is the home of the US Ambassador. It also served as the residence for a key Wehrmacht general during part of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in World War II. I didn't really find the history of the author's mother to be too interesting, especially since it had only a tangential tie to the building (which, repeatedly, she did not want to visit). The chapters on its construction, and the intervals in 1946, 1968 and 1989 were the most interesting. The overuse of "Watchers of Prague" did start to get on my nerves. Not really sure if I would recommend this.… (altro)
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EricCostello | 9 altre recensioni | Oct 27, 2021 |
EricCostello | 9 altre recensioni | Oct 27, 2021 | I would give this 6 stars if I could. Fascinating true story and window to 20th century Europe.
Loved this book. I read it during the pandemic, kept asking myself why the US did not take Prague in 1945. Patton was 50 miles away
Every history should be as well-written as this.
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